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3 February 2012Environment Minister Resigns. Environment Shouts 'There Is A God'by Ed ButtLiberal Democrat Chris Huhne resigned this morning from his role as Energy Secretary after being charged alongside his ex-wife Vicky Pryce with perverting the course of justice over speeding cover-up allegations. Mr Huhne and Miss Pryce have both been charged with the same offence after Miss Pryce allgeged that he asked her to take speeding points on his behalf. They will appear before Westminster Magistrates Court on February 16th. The pair now face the prospect of a criminal trial over allegations that they conspired to pervert the course of justice. The offence carries a maximum life sentence. This morning, soon after the charges were announced by the Criminal Prosecution Service (CPS), Mr Huhne resigned his Cabinet position. He told the press after his announcement: "I am innocent of these charges and I intend to fight them in the courts and I am confident a jury will agree. So as to avoid any distratction to my official duties or my trial defence, I am standing down as Energy and Climate Change Secretary. I will of course continue to serve my constituents in Eastleigh. That is all I have to say." If found guilty and given a jail sentence Mr. Huhne will have to reliquish his Parliamentary seat. The alleged offence is said to have taken place in March 2003 and is unlikely to have ever come to the attention of the police had Miss Pryce, who separated from Mr Huhne in 2010, not made allegations in a Sunday newspaper last year. She told the Sunday Times that Mr Huhne had asked someone close to him to take the points so he could avoid a driving ban. It later emerged she was apparently referring to herself. While Huhne continues to protest his innocence no date will be set for the by election in his consituency. Boggart Blog sympathises with the former ministers perdicament even though we have pilloried him mercilessly for his zealot's belief in the efficacy of wind turbines. The shoe we have no hard feelings towards him we have sent Mr. Huhne sa copy of Oscar Wildre's "The Ballad Of Reading Gaol"
Argentina accuses Britain of using the Falklands as a distraction from economic woeshttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/9058760/Argentina-accuses-Britain-of-using-the-Falklands-as-a-distraction-from-economic-woes.html Argentina has accused David Cameron's government of fanning the row over the Falklands Islands in an attempt to distract the British public from high unemployment. The moves "have to do with British domestic politics, with the high unemployment," said Vice President Amado Boudou yesterday. "This is an attempt to cover for a government that has a low level of accomplishment." He spoke as a small group of protesters marched on the UK embassy in Buenos Aires, burning a British flag. A branch of the British-owned bank HSBC was also attacked yesterday. Tensions over the Falklands have been rising as the 30-year anniversary of the war between Argentina and Britain approaches. The clashes came as Prince William arrived in the Falklands for a six-week stint with the Royal Air Force. Buenos Aires has labelled him a "conqueror" and called his deployment a "provocation", but the UK has insisted it is merely routine. London has also announced that it will deploy one of the country's most lethal warships, the HMS Dauntless, to the area. Buenos Aires has accused the British government of trying to militarise the conflict. RELATED POSTS: Cameron, Blair, Obama and that Coriolanus thingUK Flag Burned in Argentina Songs Of War
2 Februay 2012Egypt Football Riot kills dozensRemember the hope and anticipation that followed the downfall of former Egyptian President Honsi Mubarack. Remember how American President Barack Hussein Obama strutted around the world stage as if he had personally led the protests in Tahir Square that led to the overthrow of the dictator's regime? Remember how The Daily Stirrer told you it would all end in tears?After the outbreak of violence at a football game in Port Said last night the newly elected governing party, the Muslim Brotherhood were blaming secularist supporters of Mubarack for the deaths. One of the Muslim Brotherhoods leaders, Essam el-Erian said the people in former military dictatorship was behind the violence. The events in Port Said are planned and are a message from the remnants of the former regime, Mr el-Erian, now vice-president of the Brotherhood-backed Freedom and Justice Party and an MP, said. This tragedy is the result of negligence and the lack of army and police, and those running the country bear the responsibility. There are those who deliberately want to sow chaos in the country and place obstacles in front of the peaceful transfer of power. There was little evidence to back the accusation, but Thursday is the anniversary of the day that supporters of the Mubarack regime mounted on horses and camels charged the protesters in Tahrir Square in an attempt to save President Tahirs political life. The violence is a sign of the breakdown of law and order and lack of security in Egypt following last years revolution. The uprising was in triggered by outrage at unchecked brutality by police, and one of the Mubarak regimes first responses was to call them off the streets and put the army in charge of protests. Protesters were also protesting about rising food and fuel prices and unemployment. Since it became clear the Muslim Brotherhood party was going to gain a sweeping victory in election to the new quasi democratic government there has been widespread persecution of Egyptian Christians by supporters of the Islamist party. As the situation in Egypt continues to deteriorate we are also hearing whispers about renewed violence in Libya as supporters of Gadaffi, who always had more than half the nation behind him, are regrouping and attacking installations controlled by the interim government. In both these nations we see a demonstration of the folly of western leaders in interfering in the internal affairs of foreign counties with cultures very different to ours And yet Obama and sycophantic politicians like Cameron and Sarkozy are even now positioning themselves for military intervention in Syria and armed conflict with Iran, regardless of the fact that both have the support of Russian and China.
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No news yesterday because my electricity was off all day and the other guys had nothing to post. It was a slow news day anyway, not that there was nothing hapening but as is happening more and more it seems, the stuff that was happening is news the New World Order do not want us punters to know about.
31 January 2012Navy Sends Warships To Falklands As Argie - Obama Alliance Stokes TensionsThe Royal Navys most sophisticated warship is being sent to the South Atlantic in a move that will tell an increasingly aggressive Argentininian government and their Brit hating new best mate Barack Hussein Obama that you don't mess with us.HMS Dauntless will set sail for the Falkland Islands very soon, armed with a battery of missiles that could "take out all of South America's fighter aircraft let alone Argentina's," according to one Navy source. And we hope a few American planes if the little coprolite in The White House is fool enough to try to back up his windbaggery. The Daily Stirrer has nothing against American service personnel but if they are not brave enough to mutinily against that anti American scum sucking spawn of a pox whore's scab louse, that wannabe dictator of the world who was fraudulently put into the Presidency they must take what is coming to them. The Type 45 destroyer is the most advanced anti-aircraft and anti-ballistic ship in the world equipped with 48 Sea Viper missiles and the Sampson radar, which is more advanced than Heathrow air traffic control. "It can shoot down Argentine fighters as soon as they take off from they bases," said another Navy source. "This will give Buenos Aires serious pause for thought." The ship is in a league of its own in air defence able to track dozens of multiple targets. And what's more if the Racist in Chief lets his hatred of the British get the better of what little sense he has, we have a few more Type 45s in reserve. The deployment of Dauntless, expected in late March, comes as Argentina has stepped up its sabre rattling over possession of the islands with a ban on all Falkland registered ships in South American ports. Meanwhile Bammy who must surely have escapred from a loony bin in California, the biggist lunatic asylum in the world, is winding up for a new midlle east war with Iran and pushing for military intervention in Syria. Both these nations are supported by Russia and China, two nations only a complete psycho would seek conflict with.
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Education: Thousands Of Mickey Mouse Qualifications To Be DumpedMore than 3,000 Mickey Mouse qualifications are being removed from official league tables to stop schools playing the system to boost rankings, the Education department announced today.Courses in subjects such as horse care, retailing, nail technology, beauty therapy and practical office skills will no longer be listed as equivalent to four GCSEs under new plans. The change is being made by the Department for Education as part of sweeping reforms designed to raise school standards and stop teachers pushing teenagers onto inappropriate qualifications. For over ten years rising numbers of oddball vocational courses including things like skydiving have been accredited for inclusion in league tables amid claims they should be seen as equal value to academic subjects. A report last year by Alison Wolf, professor of public sector management at King's College London, claimed the system created perverse incentives for some schools, meaning in order to hoilst a bum school up Blair's "league tables" pupils were pushed onto courses where it is possible to get a good grade just by turning up. Today, it will be announced that the number of courses offered as equivalent to GCSEs will be cut from 3,175 to just 125. Of those, just 70 will count towards the main measure of school performance pupils gaining five A* to C grades. .Here again, political correctness has allowed stuoid subjects like Beatles studies, Multiculturalism and Feminism have crept in The change will be made to the 2014 school performance tables but is expected to be resisted by teaching unions because it will mean teachers have to get some work done.
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30 January 2012Led By The Emperor Obama, The United States, Israel, and Europe are moving closer to war with IranNobody wants war and particularly not with a nation of 80 million people that numbers Russia and China among it's allies. Nobody that is except the totally bonkers Barack Hussein Obama who seems to think Iran, backed by two of the world's military superpowers, will be a pushover as pariah state Libya with its population of five million was.Led ByObama, The United States, Israel, and Europe move closer to war with IranFirst Libya. next Syrian then The World for The Emperor Obama?Led by The All Conquering Emperor Obama, jingoistic calls for military invervention are gaining volume if not support. Well OK we know the great peacemaker hopes a middle east war will save his Presidency as Iraq saved Bush's but just as more than half of Libyans supported Gadaffi so, according to polls conducted by western firms, more than half of all Syrians support Assad. The only justification for war then is Obama's need to inflate his ego. Iran: Britain could send military reinforcements to GulfBritain could send military reinforcements back to the Persian Gulf region if the dispute with between Obamaland and Iran's theocratioc regime escalates, according to Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary. He said the decision to send ...
The West Could Be Helping Al Qaeda In LibyaThe long reign of Colonel Gaddafi in Libyan staggers on. Fortunes of the rag tag army of rebels ebb and flow as the official army, loyal to Gadaffi, better trained and equipped than their opponents and able to choose their ground where they will stand and fight sure that their efforts will not be curtailed by western air strikes, easily push back every rush by those who would overthrow the Colonel. Many western leaders and opinion makers, foremost among them ...
At Least Britain Has It's Own Currency Dukle Of York Tells EU Single Nations Proponentsby Ed ButtThe Daily Stirrer does not have much time for Royalty and so we seldom mention them. But when a Royal Prince (fat Andy) stands up for British sovereigny and by extension the national sovereignty of the EU's other member nations which is gradually being eroded by the unelected bureaucrats in Brussels, fair play to him. Addressing an audience of businessmen attending the Davos summit in Switzerland, the Duke urged foreign companies to invest in the UK rather than other European countries because unlike the nations that are in a desperate hurry to surrender sovereignty to the central bureaucracy with its plethora of restrictive laws, rules and guidelines, Britain is open for business. The remarks were made at a private cocktail party attended by international business leaders and politicians who have gathered in the ski resort for the World Economic Forum but there can be no doubt they were intended to be published to a wider audience. Chancellor George Osborne and London Mayor Boris Johnson were also at the reception hosted by the Prince Andy to promote British business. According to witnesses, quoted in the Mail on Sunday, the Duke said in his welcoming speech: The message to get across here tonight is that Britain is open for business unlike one or two other countries I could mention." To applause, he added: And what is more, we have our own currency. Go for it Andy.
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More Old People Are Falling Through Gaps In The Care Systemby Xavier ConnollyOld people are increasingly being let down by a lack of co-operation and communication between the NHS and council-run social care, MPs looking at the crisis in care will reporert this week. Conclusuions drawn from a study by the all-party health select committee are expected to lead to a recommendation that the two budgets be pooled to prevent bureaucratic wrangling over who pays for care. Dr Dan Poulter, a Conservative MP on the committee, said too many elderly people in genuine need of care were "falling through the gaps" between the services. He said previous gpovernment's decision to allow GPs to delegte responsibility for out of hours care had been "the single biggest disaster in medical care" in a decade, causing more old people to attend hospital casualty departments because they had nowhere else to turn. "The divide between health and social care has got a lot worse in the last five years," he said. "You end up with a series of endless turf wars between the diferent bureaucratic empires about who is paying for what. All that front line health care professionals should have to be concerned about is the needs of their patients." Since he was elected to parliament in 2010, Dr Poulter, who specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, has continued to work in hospitals during holidays.
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28 January 2012Gay Marriage Row Set To Erupt Againby Ed ButtLed by that evil little crypto - Nazi Peter Tachell they Gay lobby are turning up the whineometer to extra loud as they once again demand that gays be given the same right as the rest of us enjoy, the right to marry. You might think gays already have the right to marry, after alo Hello Magazine is full of pictures of trud burlsar and rug muncher coulpes getting hitched every week. Sadly civil ceremonies are not enough for a supperating syphilis sore on the bell end of humanity like Tachell or supporters. No, he is demanding that gays have the same "right" to marry in church as the rest of us.. Natutally this is not going down well in some quarters:
from The Guardian
The archbishop's comments were denounced by the gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, kicking off a skirmish that precedes the government's consultation on gay marriage in March.Dr John Sentamu, the second most senior bishop in the Church of England, said the church did not object to the introduction of civil partnerships in 2004, but that marriage should only be between men and women. The government should not overturn centuries of tradition by legalising gay marriage, the archbishop of York has said. "If you genuinely would like the registration of civil partnerships to happen in a more general way, most people will say they can see the drift," he said. "But if you begin to call those marriage, you're trying to change the English language." "I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is. It is set in tradition and history and you can't just [change it] overnight, no matter how powerful you are," he told the Daily Telegraph. "We've seen dictators do it in different contexts, and I don't want to redefine very clear social structures that have been in existence for a long time and then overnight the state believes it could go in a particular way."
The point crypto - Stalinist Tachell is wilfully ignoring and most people in who support him are missing in their frenzy of leftist, politically correct self righteousness is nobody has the right to be married. We might call civil ceremonies weddings but there is not the spiritual aspect attached to church weddings. When I have mentioned in threads on marriage related topics that I had to seek approval and jump through a few hoops people have called me a hypocrite for setting aside my non theist beliefs. But my wife was a Catholic (already lapsed then but not willing to upset her family and I considered I had no right to make her alienate herself from that family. When we talk about rights the left are always far too eager to forget that everybody's rights are equally important, even those of Christian churchgoers. The sel righteous left cannt choose groups such as gays whose rights take precedence over other peoples. And how would laws on gay marriage work. You can't give mosques exemption from the law without giving catholics the same exemption because both Islam and Catholicism are do not accept homosexuality. But to impose such a requirement on Muslims would be racist and curtail their right to practice their religion. On top of all that, if the government caves in to whingers like Tachell there will be an enormous backlash against gays because while the London metropolitan elite are obsessed with gay rights the cause has little support and much opposition in the real world outside the M25. What good will a return to gay bashing do anyone?
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27 January 2012Spare Us The Identity PoliticsIt is a characteristic of the era in which we live that the assaults of the collectivist, authoritarian left on the traditional value that hold nations buit on the Graeco Roman culture together has created identity politics, one of the most destructive trends of the past half century. The human rights movement having gasined roughly equal rights in most developed nations turned its attention to minority rights. They obsess about gay rights, Muslims rights, black rights, children'r rights and womens rights as if these ynthetic minorities are in fact homogenous groups. In fact there are various factions within all the politically correct groupings created by leftists and "progressive liberals".It is ridiculous (and a denigration of their rights surely) to pretend all gay men are supporters of left wing political groups as it is ignorasnt and demeaning to describe all gay men as artistic and creative. There are gays, out of the closet ones, who are quite right wing in their views. There are gay men who have little interest in interior decor, who do noit care for the arts. One of the most ridiculous generalisations of the left however is the way they talk about womens' issues as if all women are concerned about the same issues or think the same way about everything. To make such assumptions is demeaning to independent minded and individualistic women. One woman who agrees with me on this is Ruth Porter is the communications director for the Institute of Economic Affairs Writing in The Daily Telegraph she says:
Girls, girls, girls: its time we draw a line under the obsession with women and "our" issues. The level of debate over feminism reached a new low this week with the discussion between Laurie Penny and Louise Mensch on Newsnight.
Well there's nothing quite like a girl fight to pull in the viewers. But what was the scrap all about. Ruth says:The media is fascinated by this issue, either focusing on the battleground for womens votes or on topics such as whether BBC Radio 4's Today programme has enough of us on. Newsnight seems to be leading the charge with its all-women panels. I suspect its got to a point where feminism is now being given disproportionate air time, but no ones done a study on thas yet.
Its not often I agree with Laurie Penny over Louise Mensch, but on one key point I do. At the start of the discussion, teasingly chaired by Paxman, Laurie remarked: There are many different types of feminism, but some of them are wrong. No one would think that a particularly controversial comment, but Louise didnt agree: I dont necessarily think there is a wrong kind of feminism," she said. "There are maybe different types of feminism, but they want to get to the same goal. This in some ways is the crux of the matter.
There are many different types of feminism, some based on ideas of sexual difference, others on a focus on androgyny; there are schools of feminism in a neo-Marxist tradition that look at power relationships between people, and there are others focused on the rights agenda.
Well that's getting down to it. We get back to the left's glib assumption that there is only one corerect way of looking at any issue, and to disagree with the orthodoxy of the collectivist, politicall correct agenda on anything is proff that one is wrong. One of the dogmas of the agenda driven left is that science is always right. Another is thaty "human rights issues trump economic collapse, food shortages, water shortages, an unemployment crisis, the appalling standard of education instate schools, the dysfunctional National Health Service and a crisis opf democracy as the leftist, authoritarian bureaucratic dictatorship in Brussels drag us ever closer to becoming part of a Euopean superstate.
Read the rest of Ruth Porters article here: Women are as diverse as men. They have widely differing views and interests. Strangely the left, the part of the political spectrum who are always screaming abouy "diversity" are the ones always eager to impose uniformity on individuals. Hypocrites.
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Will Warmageddonists Tel Us Where The Missing Heat Is Or Shut The Fuck Upby XAvier ConnollyAfter recent revelations from NASA and NOAA that the earth is not warming as quickly as climate scientists mathematical models predict, the Warmageddonist loobby came up with a ridiculous (even by their standards) respose that some of the heat has gone missing. Respected global warming sceptic Judith Curry has wriiten Where's The Missing Heat which shows Earths missing heat might not be missing after all. Thats the conclusion of a new study that examines how accurately satellites and floating ocean instruments track the flow of energy from the sun to Earth and back again" A good comment by stefanthedenier dishes the Warmageddonisds arguement very succinctly.
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26 January 2012David Cameron Blames Madness Of Bussels Red Tape For Euro CrisisSpeaking at the EU economic forum in Davos, Switzerland The Prime Minister said Europe is still in a perilous time (up shit creek to you and me) because of its debts and the financial burden of over - generous statutory welfare systems. He told the gathering the EU Central Bureaucracy must stop throttling growth with pointless rules and regulations.Mr. Cameron urged his fellow leaders not to impose a tax on financial transactions that will cost thousands of jobs in financial centres, see banks migrate to business friendly offshore regimes and hamstring economic recovery at a fragile time. Speaking to an audience of the globe's business elite, Mr Cameron also cast doubt on the future of the euro. He said it was difficult to have a single currency without deep financial integration between countries, collective debt and a strong central bank behind it. "Currently it's not that the eurozone doesn't have all of these, it's that it doesn't really have any of these," he said, drawing laughter from the audience. The Daily Stirrer has always said the problems of the single currency were inevitable because splicing together such disparate economies as Germany and Greece was economic lunacy and only undertaken in order to advance the European superstate agenda of the International crypto marxist "progressive liberals." We are not alone however in mistrusting the Bureau Rats of Brussels: Britain the home of Euroscepticism Distrust of Europe seems inherently British, born of geographic distance and political loyalties Marine Le Pen: the face of French Euroscepticism The far right is not alone in rejecting the European project, but the National Front leader has made the cause her own
Italy's Northern League: Eurosceptics with their own pan-European project Debt crisis hardens Eurosceptics' antipathy in Poland Opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski campaigned for EU membership, but has been outraged by calls for federalism Add to all that the success of the True Finns in Finland's most recent election, the line taken by former Czech President the late Vaclsav Havel and his succesors, the growing strength of the nationalist right in Holland and Germany and anti European feelings in Portugal, Spain and Greece and it becomes clear Europe's crisis is not just financial but political too.
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25 January 2012Obama's Re - election bit will gamble on foreign quarrels and class warThe annual ritual in which the President lays out for the public just where their nation stands and where it is going was a typical Obama speech, vacuous windbaggery punctuated with self aggrandizement, overloaded with personal pronouns and very short on substance. One of Obama's critics said The President is at his best when reading things off an autocue. If this was the President best America is ever more FUBAR than anyone thought.Obama attacked widening income inequality as the theme that will set set the tone for his re-election bid.He emphasised the importance of an economy that works for everyone, in the nationally televised address to Congress. The speech saw a renewal of Obama's "tax the rich" manta calling for higher taxes on the "wealthy" without actually bothering to define who the wealthy are. Tax hikes are something Republicans will oppose tooth and nail. They will not be an effective remedy for the nation's economic ills as wealth is mostly tied up in non - taxable assets, something the economically illiterate Obama has not learned in his years in office. He went on to say the US economy is on the mend, but unemployment remains high at 8.5%. True and the government's debt burden now stands at over $15 trillion, up almost 50% on the level it stood at when Obama took office. Moving on from economic to social issues Bammy said he would strive to reclaim American values: "We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well, while a growing number of Americans barely get by. Or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules. What's at stake are not Democratic values or Republican values, but American values. We have to reclaim them," he said. Mr Obama said the economy was bouncing back from the 2007-09 recession, a statement that is clearly untrue. He sounded a warning to his conservative opponents, as he added: "I intend to fight obstruction with action, and I will oppose any effort to return to the very same policies that brought on this economic crisis in the first place." This probably means if re - elected but with Republican majorities in both houses of Congress he intends to ram his legislative programme through by signing executive orders to by - pass the democratic process. This would delight his supporters who like to style themselves "liberals" and "democrats" but have been calling on the Obamessiah to rule as a tyrant since a few days after he took office. Apparently the liberals do not know what "liberal" means and the democrats hold democracy in contempt. Mr Obama also made a renewed call for his Buffett Rule - a principle that millionaires should not pay a lower tax rate than typical workers. The idea is named after Warren Buffett, the legendary chief of Berkshire Hathaway a huge and obscenely profitable investment company, who famously complained that his secretary pays a higher rate of tax than he does. Pledging no tax increases for those earning under $250,000 (Ł160,000), Mr Obama said: "If you make more than $1 million a year, you should not pay less than 30% in taxes." "Now, you can call this class warfare all you want," he added. "But asking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary in taxes? Most Americans would call that common sense." Not really, Most Americans have enough common sense to know people like Warren Buffet have their billions tied up in a web of offshore companies and can move money around between them so it stays ahead of tax deadlines. Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, delivering the Republican Party's response to Mr Obama's speech, called it "pro-poverty".He said: "No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favour with some Americans by castigating others." The address will put the focus back on the President for a while, probably he is hoping it will keep him in the public eye until Iran can be provoke into an act of aggression against American interests. Obie seems to be gambling that another middle east war will do for his re - election campaign what Iraq did for George W. Bush's. Somehow, in spite of all the bloated rhetoric, The Daily Stirrer can't see Americans falling for it a second time.
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24 January 2012Iran: Britain could send military reinforcements to Gulfby Ed ButtBritain could send military reinforcements back to the Persian Gulf region if the dispute with betwen Obamaland and Iran's theocratioc regime escalates, according to Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary. He said the decision to send HMS Argyll as part of an international flotilla of warships through the sensitive Strait of Hormuz on Sunday sent a "clear signal" to Tehran. The deployment defied explicit Iranian threats to close the waterway. It coincided with an escalation in the West's confrontation with Iran over the country's nuclear ambitions. Iran has threatened to close the strait through which 35 per cent of the world's tanker-borne oil exports pass in retaliation for sanctions against its oil exports. The EU announced on Monday (Jan 23) it would impose an embargo on Iranian oil as part of sanctions imposed in an attempt to halt the rogue state's nuclear programme. The measures include an immediate embargo on new contracts for crude oil and petroleum products while existing ones are allowed to run until July. No, no and thrice no, says the Daily Stirrer. Britain must not become involved as Obama's proxy in another skirmish in the war on national sovereignty the jug eared steak of piss in The White , WEeltzfuhrer Obama is waging on behald of his faceless paymasters, the international bastards of the Bilderberg Group who really control the destinity of western civilisation and whose New World Order Agenda agenda is to abolish sovereign and democratic nations and create a global government.
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Massive Solar Radiation Storm Set To Hit EarthThe Daily Stirrere has told you all along that the climate change doom and gloom merchants and the climate science tax eaters were a bunch of con men whose aim was to divert our attention from the real threats facing humanity, some of which are man made (but not related to carbon emissions) and some which are natural and completely beyond the control of smart arse scientists, the pompous politicians who fund them or anybody else. Today we bring you news of a natural threat.
..A potent solar flare has unleashed the biggest radiation storm since 2005 and could disrupt some satellite communications in the polar regions, US space weather monitors said Monday.The event started late Sunday with a moderate-sized solar flare that erupted right near the center of the Sun, said Doug Biesecker, a physicist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Weather Prediction Center.
"The flare itself was nothing spectacular, but it sent off a very fast coronal mass ejection traveling four million miles per hour (6.4 million kilometers per hour)," he told AFP.A rush of radiation in the form of solar protons already has begun bombarding the Earth and is likely to continue through Wednesday. The radiation storm is the largest of its kind since 2005 but still ranks only a three on the scale of one to five, enough to be considered "strong" but not "severe," he added. NOAA said its website the S3 ranking means "it could, e.g., cause isolated reboots of computers onboard Earth-orbiting satellites and interfere with polar radio communications." Biesecker said that when it comes to radiation storms, the polar regions are affected most. For instance, the storm could spell disruptions to airline flights, oil operations, Arctic exploration and space satellites. Night-sky viewers in Asia and Europe may be able to witness the aurora, or Northern Lights, late Tuesday as a result of the storm. "We don't expect major impacts from an event like this," Biesecker said.
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23 January, 2012Nick Clegg: housing benefit reform will not cause 'mass homelessness'by Xavier ConnollyDeputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has scorned the doom and gloom merchants who predict that thousands of families in London and the South East would be forced out of their homes by the coalition government's proposed cap on welfare benefits. Mr Clegg said that while there was a need to reconsider "transitional arrangements" for introducing the benefits cap, he supported the principle behind it. "I completely back Pensions and Benefirs Iain Duncan Smith on this," he said in an interview on BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show. "It surely can't be fair, it can't be right, that you can be receiving more on benefits than someone going out earning Ł35,000 which is the equivalent if you were to go out and work." Campaigners say to cap benefits at Ł26,000 a year would cause homelessness as new limits on housing benefit will force people to move out of expensive areas. But Mr Clegg said: "This is not going to be some sort of punitive programme of mass homelessness. Of course the coalition will not allow that to happen." The fact is we have a housing crisis in Britain, mostly down to the war on the working class waged the Thatcher / Major governments (but mostly Margaret Thatcher) of 1979 - 97 and the loonytoons economics of Labour between 1997 and 2010. There is no municipal house bilding programme now and house prices have been forced so high young people cannot afford to buy unless they are fortunate enough to have parents who can help. But even that avenue into the housing market is being squeezed as those middle aged people see their savings and pension funds being eroded by inflation and devaluation. Clegg is right for once to play down the wailing and gnashing of teeth coming from lefties who would like all the "poor" (i.e. anyone not in the hated one per cent) to live in a luxurious mansion and be given Ł1000 a week at the taxpayers expense although it does not occur to these Trotskyite cupid stunts that if you make being unemployed such an attractive proposition nobody will have to be arsed getting some work done and earning a crist to pay for it all. Never mind all those vote-for-a-dog-turd-if-it-was-waering-a-labour-rosette Dr. Pangloss types who think al is for the best in this the best of all possible worlds and are convinced the taxpaers one and all have a bottomless pit of money from which they could be funding all the acid heads, coke heads, dope heads, dick heads, no marks, scallies, work dodgers, paternity dodgers, scumbags, arseholes and other supperating syphilis sores on the bell end of mankind. We cannot, nor have we any reesponsibility to put up Somali shit-kickers and their six wives and 10 million kids in London mansions at Ł3,000 a week, not do we have any responsibility for British born white parasites who run around fathering children on fuckwitted female window lickers and then persuade their "lovers" to kep them while they booze away all the child benefit. This insanity has to stop. The welfare state was designed to provide a subsistence lifestyle not to keep useless fuckers in the style to which the rest of us are accustomed.
Poverty and Common SenseTwo stories, both concerning jobs, one on poverty and one on benefits sat next to each other on the BBC website today. They made me think once again about the insanity that seems to have infected the nations of the developed world.
While Socialist Occupy Protstors Call Punitive Tax On Weath, Socialist Tony Blair Pays 5% TaxDaily Stirrer writers have told you often what a bunch of hypocrites and self serving scumbags lefties are. More moderate souls may blanch at such language and tell us it is not the way to win an arguement. Well in our experience (and we all have a lot of experience) there is no more chance of persuading a leftie to let go of their certyainties and open their minds to other possibilities than of persuading a doorstep evangelist to convert to atheism. So let us tell you the story of a leftie (a former Labour Prime Minister) and his tax return.For most people, getting the sack is the start of a tsunami of financial troubles. Not for Tony Blair however. The former Prime Ministers, traitor and war criminal's removal from Downing Street opened the door to great wealth, privilege and a lucrative career as felcher in chief to the rich and powerful. But a income of over Łlthough his income was Ł12 million the last financial year, Mr Blair only paid Ł315,000 in tax or less than 5%. How is that possible? Two short words. Blair Inc. The former Labour (and remember Labour claims to be "The People's Party) leader's huge income derives from an almost impetestrable web off offshore shell companies unofficially known as Blair Inc. This complicated network not only allows the full extent of Blairs earnings to remain hidden, it allows money to be kept on the move, always just ahead of tax deadlines. The Ł12 million income, up 42% on the previous year, was filed by Windrush Ventures, one of Mr Blairs many companies, this particular one being registered in a Caribbean tax haven. However, almost Ł11 million of this income was written off as administrative expenses and hence classed as tax allowable. This brought total profits for the company down to just over Ł1 million. Corporation tax was levied on this at 28%, resulting in a bill of just Ł315,000. City accountants have been scratching their heads at this large expenses figure. The accounts show that Mr Blair paid Ł2.3 million in wages to 26 staff in the last tax year. A further Ł300,000 went on office equipment, while Ł550,000 was spent on rent for Mr Blairs Mayfair business base. Now in my heyday I had to set up a corporation, one of hundreds of Information Technology freelancers forced to do so by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. When I submitted my accounts showing 30% operating expenses the taxman queried every item. And go my expenses down to 28%. The Irony was though making freelancers operate limited companies was supposed to stamp on tax evasion all the specialists working in various fields were just that, specialists in our field and thus not well equipped to navigate the labyrinth of tax and corporate law that governs corporate entities. So we all hired accountants who were specialists in the field we freelancers were not. And those accountants earned their fees by ensuring of finances were arranged in such a way that the Revenue service ended up with much less than we would have been happy to pay had they left us alone. If any freelancing professionals had gone to their accountants and tried to say their operating expences were over ninety per cent of company revenue however, they would have been shown the door. So why not Blair? And why are the Revenue not crawling over his business affairs to find out what he has ben up to. As things stand almost Ł8 million of expenses completely unaccounted for in his company accounts. And that obly covers the earnings we know about, not including gratuities from various oli sheiks, unsavoury third world tyrants, Bilderbergers and New World Order shits in recognition of services rendered. Much of this figure may have gone towards footing the frequent overseas trips made by Mr Blair and his business entourage. Analysis by The Sunday Telegraph this week revealed that in just 12 months, the former PM made 61 trips abroad totalling almost 224,000 miles of travel. Most of those trips involved public speaking engagements or "consultancy" (schmoozing) and of course the earnings from such activities would be paid to one of Blair's corporations operating out of a pigeon hole in a mail drop address in one of those little nations not known for the transparency of it's ompany laws and financial regulation. Blair's attitude to wealth and tax is typical of the lefties who form the new elite. One law for them, another for the rest of us.
How To Minimise Your Tax Bill (from Yahoo News)How to do it...Practically, setting up your own business will garner the largest tax advantages if your earnings are high enough to push you into the upper income tax brackets (as Mr Blairs do). All business profits are subject to Corporation Tax. This is charged at 20% for profits under Ł300,000. A marginal (inclining) rate is charged if profits are between Ł300,000 and Ł1.5 million and the full rate of 26% (25% in the 2012/13 tax year) is levied on profits exceeding Ł1.5 million. However these profit boundaries apply after tax allowable expenses including your own salary have been deducted. The idea is to take a salary out of these takings that is taxed at the 20% income tax rate. An example... Say your business took Ł300,000 of income in the 2011/12 tax year. The first job is to write off any allowable expenses. For this example lets peg this figure at Ł100,000 made up of a Ł35,000 salary for yourself and Ł65,000 for other admin costs. These expenses can then be written off immediately, leaving profits of Ł200,000. Corporation tax at 20% is due on this, giving a bill of Ł40,000. Meanwhile your Ł35,000 salary is subject to 20% basic rate income tax, after youve had your personal allowance, which stands at Ł7,475 this year. So Ł27,525 of your salary is subject to a 20% levy, giving an income tax bill of Ł5,505 and a net pay packet for the year of Ł29,495, minus National Insurance of course. So your total tax bill for the year with salary would come to Ł45,505. Thats 15.16% of your original Ł300,000 income. And even when you take expenses out of the equation, youre still not paying any more than 20% tax equivalent to a basic rate earner on any of your profits. In context, if you had earned Ł300,000 from a full time or self-employed job (after expenses), income tax at 50% would be levied. In addition, the remaining Ł160,000 sitting in the business account can be used to fund your pension (tax free), pay out dividends or finance directors loans: three extremely tax-advantageous ways to make the most of your company cash.
Iran threatens to close Strait of Hormuz over EU oil sanctionsA senior member of Iran's parliament said on Monday the Islamic Republic would close the entry point to the Gulf if new sanctions block its oil exports, reiterating a threat made by officials a month ago that caused a temporary oil price spike.Propelled by the cretinous foreign policy of the Idiot - President Obama, the situation seems to be rapidly worsening in the gulf.
21 January 2012Obama Prepares To Kick Off War With Iran.We Old Gits who write The Daily Strrer love to say, with the obligatory show of false modesty, we told you so. And we get to indulge in this pleasure quite often as we are always right. So as we have predicted the US was preparing foir war with Iran several times of the thre years since we started The Daily Stirrer you might wel ask "Will they admit they were wrong on this one? Well we would be happy to admit we were wrong had we been wrong. Things are never what they seem to be however and even while Barack Hussain Obama is claiming to seek rapporaochment with the regegade theological regime in Tehran, the US naval presence in the waters of the Persian Gulf is being stepped up, economic sanctions are hitting Iran's people hard, US sympathisers among the regimes opponents are strirring up resentment of the government and US special forces are operating within Iran.That might not amount to war in most people's estimation but with even war crazy egomaniac Emperor Obama has had to understand that Russia and China were hugely pisssed of about the deception used by the west in Libya. A UN resolution that permitted US and NATO (mostly Britain and France) to enforce a no - fly zone over rebel held areas was used by the west to pursue a war aimed at bringing about regime change. As well as the brutal bombing campaign that claimed the lives of thousands of innocent Libyan civilians, the west also armed the rebrel rabble and had special forces operating in Libyan territory. That is how war is waged these days. Russia and China wil not stand for such New World Order Imperalism again however and those are two nations everyone (except the Emperor Obama is seems) is wise enough to know you don't want to fuck about with. The Daily Stirrer has learned this via IRGC, the Iranian state news agency in Tehran:
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Saturday it considered the deployment of U.S. warships to the Gulf part of their routine activity, apparently backing away from previous warnings to Washington not to enter the area.
In other words if the US pulled its Aircraft Carrier out before Iran softened it's line, it's round one to Iran. "U.S. warships and military forces have been in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East region for many years and their decision in relation to the despatch of a new warship is not a new issue and it should be interpreted as part of their permanent presence," IRGC Deputy Commander Hossein Salami told the official IRNA news agency. The comment may be seen as an effort to reduce tensions that rose sharply this month when Iran threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz - the vital shipping lane for oil shipments out of the Gulf - if new sanctions hit its crude exports. Crude prices have spiked several times on fear of military conflict and uncertainty about the effect of sanctions on the global oil market. There has been no U.S. aircraft carrier in the Gulf since the USS John C. Stennis left at the end of December. On January 3, Iran told the Stennis not to return - an order interpreted by some observers in Iran and Washington as a blanket threat to any U.S. carriers. "I recommend and emphasize to the American carrier not to return to the Persian Gulf," Iran's army chief, Major General Ataollah Salehi, said at the time. "We are not in the habit of warning more than once." Washington has said it does not expect any problems the next time its ships enter the Gulf. The Pentagon, citing operational security, will not say when the next carrier will pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran also announced it planned to hold naval exercises in the strait and the Gulf very soon. Salami told IRNA these would go ahead as planned in the Iranian month of Bahman which runs from January 21 to February 19.
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20 January 2012Sorry we did not get a post online yesterday, it was due to out hosting srervices servers being unavailable.Immigrants Who Have Never Paid UK Tax Or National Insurance Claiming Billions A Year In Benefits. by Ed Butt[an error occurred while processing this directive]
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All The People Who Never Had A Job?Information released by the government shows one point four million Britons have never had a job. A Boggart Blog investigtion shows the unemployment problem is further reaching. Many of the waged do not have proper jobs, they are public sector tax eaters whose candy floss jobs have been created onlu to make the unemployment statistics look better.
18 January 2012Hungary Faces Bankruptcy and Default as EU loses patienceby Profanicus MaximusThe European Commission has launched legal action against Hungary's Fidesz government for violations of European Union treaty law and erosion of democracy, marking a dramatic escalation in the war of words with the EU's enfant terrible. "We'll use all our powers to make sure that Hungary complies with the rules of the EU," said European Commission president, International Marxist and New World Order lackey Jose Manuel Barroso. The immediate dispute centres on three laws in Hungary's new constitution pushed through despite EU warnings. Commission officials say these are just the "tip of the iceberg". Over 300 laws have been passed since Fidesz took power in 2010, giving the party sweeping control over the country's institutional system. Amnesty International said last week that Hungary's media clamp-down breaches human rights. Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said his country was the victim of "international leftists" in Brussels. A zealous anti-Communist, he insists that Hungary's Stalinist past must be ripped out at the roots. That line is hardly likely to play well to the Stalinist bureau rats of Brussels. The Commission aims to overturn a law forcing retirement of judges at age 62 instead of 70, widely viewed as a ploy to stack the courts with political loyalists. The new head of the judicial office is granted powers to manage the courts, appoint judges, and allocate cases. The central bank law allows ministers to vet the agenda of Monetary Council and take part in meetings. The governor has to swear an oath of loyalty and lacks secure tenure. "Governments must refrain from seeking to influence their central bank," said EU economics commissioner Olli Rehn. "Certain provisions in the new constitution are in breach of these principles. This needs to be addressed before we can start formal negotiations on the requested EU/IMF financial system." Though defiant Mr Orbán has no hope of raising necessary funds from the EU and the International Monetary Fund until the dispute is resolved, leaving him a stark choice of either bowing to EU demands or letting his country slide into bankruptcy. Yields on Hungary's two-year debt jumped to 9.17pc on Tuesday, an unsustainable level for an economy in recession with public debt of near 80pc of GDP. Hungary's debt was cut to junk status by rating agencies last week. Economic commentators point out that Hungary must soon repay 5.9bn (Ł4.9bn) in EU-IMF loans and raise external funds equal to 18pc of GDP this year, the highest in Eastern Europe. Two-thirds of household debt is in Swiss francs, leading to a lethal currency mismatch as capital flight weakens the forint. "Hungary is playing with fire," said Lars Christensen from Danske Bank. "The EU is not bluffing. It will let Hungary go over the edge to make the point that EU countries must play by the rules. Our worry is that Hungary's government has not yet got the message." The EU said it had sent three letters of "Formal Notice" over Hungary's assault on the independence of the judiciary, the central bank, and the data protection ombudsman the first step in "infringement proceedings". The dispute could ultimately lead to loss of Hungary's voting rights under Article 7 of EU treaty law. The Daily Stirrer thinks Hungary has served "formal notice" on the EU bureaucracy that it will not tolerate attempts by the bureaucracy to meddle in it's internal affairs. With the mood among voters across the whole of the community as anti - EU as it has ever been and starting to turn nasty, it could be the smooth faced conspirators of the community's managing elite that is playing with fire. This is not of course a dispute about debt, it is a dispute about democracy and the right of elected governments in EU member nations to run their own affairs as they see fit rather that be controlled by the unelected bureaucrats of the EU. Think back to early December and how little Nazi shits like Barosso and von Rompuy, a couple of pen pushers and snake felchers who have never been elected by the people of Europe but only by a cabal of oligarchs intent on abolishing the ancient nations and creating a single superstate that will stretch from the Baltic in the North to the from the Atlantic in the west to the Euphrates in the east. OK, so now you have a unbalanced view of the situation as our report is an antidote to the biased reporting of lefties and new world order lovers in mainstream media, whose side are you on? Brave little Hungary or the Bastards of Brussels?
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div id="120118-eurozone"> Can the Eurozone Centre Holdby Charles Crawford
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. You know the sinking feeling when you hear some precious moments of music from Mozart
17 January 2012Drop in UK inflation Is Not Good Newsby John de RoeThe Office for National Statistics has reported a sharp fall in the Consumer Prices Index - down from 4.8 per cent in November to 4.2 per cent last month - was the sharpest drop in the annual rate since December 2008 when the UK was in recession and VAT was reduced. Government ministers and propagandists will try to talk this up as a sing that the economy is starting to recover. We should be wary however, in the current economic circumstances a drop in inflation, especially one this rapid in what is traditionally the best month of the year for retailers, is not good news. What it means is that shops and businesses are having to cut prices to boost turnover and cash flow. Inflation is still well above the Bank of England's 2 per cent target but has been falling from its three-year peak of 5.2 per cent in September and the Bank of England expects the fall to gain momentum this year as the economy continues to stagnate and the effect of the January 2011 VAT rise falls out of annual comparisons. The Retail Prices Index, which includes mortgage costs, slid to 4.8 per cent in December, down from 5.2 per cent in November. Economists had forecast a slightly sharper fall to 4.7 per cent. This week the last of the Big Six utilities announced price cuts in energy prices of either gas or electricity and retailers have warned that consumers are wary about spending. A fall in petrol, oil, gas, clothing and footwear prices was partially offset by rising car insurance and telephone charges, the ONS said. (more ONS information) With few signs of an economic recovery in the developed nations and even the runaway Chinese economy slowing this deflationary trend look likely to persist, leading to higher unemployment and more austerity. As profits are squeezed rising prices will reduce real incomes curtail investment in new projects or expansion programmes, lead to higher unemployment and continue the economic slump which is now entering it's fourth year. A spokesman for Investec financial consultancy said: " The sharp fall in the headline measure is entirely consistent with the Bank of England forecasts and should help to pave the way for further quantitative easing next month. While the targeted measure remains well above 2 per cent, we do expect an aggressive series of falls through the first half of this year, and whilst we may not see 2 per cent inflation in 2012, we nonetheless expect subsequent asset purchases to be sanctioned in May as well as in February." So there you have it, the cat is out of the bag. Quantitative easing or printing money and pumping it into the economy is a cunning stunt to disguise devaluation. In effect the government are continuing Labour's policy of stealing your saving and pensions to reduce their debt burden. The theory is that putting more money into the economy makes each Pound, Euro or Dollar in circulation worth less. It is short termism at its worst because while it reduces the value of what we pay for goods subject to existing price contracts, any new contracts and futures will take into account the lower value of the customer's domestic currency therefore the price of the commodity will be higher. Price increases can only be absorbed so far by the supply chain, with producers, wholesalers and retailers margins already squeezed increases will be passed on to the consumer. So with wages static and their purchasing power diminished consumers are being squeezed ever more tightly. And naturally anybody who has savings or has accumulated a pension fund will find their savings or investments worth less. Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee members have indicated that they want to see a fall in inflation before considering further measure to stimulate the economy. By next month's policy meeting, the Bank will have completed the latest Ł75bn round of Quantitative Easing or as they are now coyly saying asset purchases thus paving the way for an expansion to the scheme. To remind you, Quantitative Easing is a process of issuing bonds from the central Bank and having the Treasury buy them. Thus nations are buying their own debt. The situation is so bad that it is not just basket case economies like Greece, Portugal and Italy taking this route but also France, Britain and even the USA. Is it any wonder the credit agencies are downgrading ratings. We at the Daily Stirrer hate to gloat but we have been telling you this was going to happen for three years.
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16 January 2012Google Has Comptely Forgotten 'Don't Be Evil' As The World Domination Agend Gathers Paceby Ian R Thorpe. At last Google has been caught stealing information from a business rival rather than private induviduals. Will people now wise up to these scumsucking pirates of the internet search engine world. Read full post Google Has Comptely Forgotten 'Don't Be Evil' As The World Domination Agenda Gathers PaceRELATED POSTS: Don't Be EvilThe Google Algorithm Is Cheating High Quality Websites How The Google Algorithm Scam Works Google's surveillance society Is the internet making us stupid Sociologist says the internet is a threat to civilisation We are becoming slaves of the machine Google, web pirates and censorship
14 January 2012Euro Zone Gazes Into The Abyss As France Loses Its AAA Credit Ratingby John de RoeStock markets fell sharply in late trading on Friday (13 January - oo-er) and the Euro zone single currency plunged against all other major currencies as Standard and Poors cut Frances AAA rating. Habitual debtor Italy saw its long-term rating dropped by two notches, along with Spain, Portugal and Cyprus. Malta, Slovakia, and Slovenia had their ratings lowered by one notch. A surprise victim of the Credit Rating night of the long knives was Austria, one of the few solvent nations in the Euro single currency system. The move triggered a backlash from European politicians and led French politiciands to respond with a typically Gallic mix of childishness and pomposity by calling for Britain to be downgraded too. They conveniently overlooked the fact that Britain does not use the Euro. The downgrade represents a further loss of confidence in the single currency and the ability of the E U to rescue eurozone members from the burden of burgeoning sovereign debt that have resulted to their weak economied being tied to the German economic powerhousre. The UK Treasury believes that any collapse of the euro could seriously damage the British economy and banking system, pushing the UK back into a deep recession. The S & P move threatens to sink the main European bail-out fund set up to support struggling countries such as Greece and Portugal.
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13 January 2012Osborne Says Cuts To Across The Board Child Benefit Will Go Ahead.by Ed ButtChancellor George Osborne has said the Coalition government's plan to cut child benefit for higher rate taxpayers will go ahead but after ministers' hints the policy could be made "fairer" Mr Osborne has agreed to review the plans. While Lib Deems and Labour MPs, the unthinking droids of the politically correct left wail and gnash their teeth at the prospect of any benefit being cut ever and the idiot fringe lefties at that cesspit of Trotskyite misanthropic idiocy Liberal Conspiracy blog are in paroxysms of rage that Conservative are even allowed to breathe let alone become Members of Parliament, actually the Tories and the more level headed Lib Dems who support the cuts are quite right. Let's get it straight, nobody is talking about cutting the child benefit of poor families or single mothers. The proposed cuts will merely take an entirely unnecessary payment away from wealthy and affluent parents. My wife and I used to get child benefit when our kids were growing up. We didn't need it, my wife put it in savings accounts for the kids and as soon as they were eighteen and could get their hands on it they squandered the lot. I earned several times the average household income however.
To many families the child benefit is a lifeline that keeps them out of the jaws of loan sharks. Nobody is disputing that. Unfortunately what always happens when leftie Consider, Tristram and Jemima both have income from family trusts, they also have well paid jobs in media and the fashion business. They have two children (and a nanny. Jemima suspoects Tristram is boffing the nanny but he isn't, he's boffing the young man who looks after the garden). Wayne and Tracey are schleppers. Wayne works as a shelf stacker, Tracey on the checkout. both earn slightly more than minimum wage. They cannot afford to have children so both pay a little tax. Tristram and Jemima get child benefit. Wayne and Tracey get eff all but tax revenue from them and many like them goes towards the child benefits paid to all parents regardless of status. Is this fair. The left's abhorrence of what it calls means tested benefits goes back to the 1930s when a benefit claim would result in a call from a man in a bowler hat who would ask lots of embarrassing questions and finally decide that as a family of six or so had one teenage girl in work at a factory her wage could support the whole family. Now of course the means test element is simply a calculation of income against certain estimated minimum levels. Things have moved on a lot since then and the government is not suggesting single mothers should prostitute themselves or sell their children, simply that rich people do not really need this benefit. The leftie mindset is so steeped in stupidity they are still behaving as if it is the 1930s and that is the case. Perhaps George Osborne should consider cutting benefits to lefties. If the twats at Liberal Conspiracy had to go out and get some work done they would not have so much time for whining like cupid stunts about trivial issues.
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12 January 2012Euro Zone Crisis: The Decline And Fall Of The Bureaucratic Empireby Ian R Thorpe and John de Roe
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11 January 2012Britain's Too Soft Information Technology Curriculum To Be Beefed Upby Ian R ThorpeThese days, it seems all anyone can talk about is how important it is for young people to learn programming skills: the Livingstone-Hope Skills Review has called for making computer science a part of the national curriculum. It's all part of an agenda driven push to make Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) subjects central to our country's education system. But what's new? Pretty much every politician agrees that having more young people excel in these subjects would be a good thing, so the important question is how to accomplish it, beyond wishing it to be so but those coming out of universities with science of technology degrees now are all too often close to terminally unemployable nerds with Obesssive Compulsive Disorders, a head full of theories and a belief that machines can think like humans. Supporters of "the agenda" say part of the problem is incentives. Why should young people put in the hard yards to study these subjects if, on the one hand, you can become a millionaire by working in finance or, on the other hand, you believe that it'd be easier to become (or snag) a footballer or celebrity. True, but even if we returned to the days when people could make a pile if they had the right computer skills (as I did) nobody wants to shag the kind of geeky, malodorous, obsessive compulsive boring little tit who becomes a science and technology grad. The factor most often overlooked by the utopian dreamers who support "the agenda" (to establish a sci-tech and academic elite ready to implement the scientific dictatorship first posited by H. G. Wells over a hundred years ago) is the unconscious, dismissive attitude that young people, parents, and schools have towards programming and STEM subjects. This clipping from an article in The New Yorker talking about an American football coach joining a high school in New Jersey and creating an elite team:
"When he'd arrived at Hackensack High School, in 1990, he was surprised to discover that the football players were not the social leaders. "As time went on, they became the leaders of the school, and the school ran a lot smoother," he said. "Younger kids had role models. They said, 'I want to be like that guy.' If those kids are running the school, you got a chance."
It was a stark reminder that athletes not academics are considered to be the best role models in schools, not just in the US but also the UK, where rugby players, football players, and other sports stars are held in the highest esteem. And while I have genuine respect for the discipline and work ethic that top student athletes have, none of these virtues are exclusive to sports and surely, if we're concerned about academic performance, we should be looking at other pursuits that are just as worthwhile and important to students, if not more, than being a fantastic football or rugby player like programming and STEM.
Like I said, nobody wants to shag a science geek. The problem here stems from the abandonment of the renaissance education model in favour of specialisation from an early age. At my school, probably a more agust establishment than some state run High School in Hackensack, New Jersey, our secondary school education from age eleven to eighteen was aimed at giving pupils a broad grounding in the basics, English, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Humanities, arts and history. With this under our belts, the reasoning went, we were equipped to learn new skills as we progressed through life. I did not start to learn programming until my late 20s and letter went on to specialise in networking and telecommunications. Other programmers I worked with who could all handle several languages including COBOL and FORTRAN, came from backgrounds as diverse as engineering and forestry. The difference between all of us and today's nerds is that we had the broad educational grounding and some years experience in the workplace which added to the programming skills that are really not difficult to learn, enabled us to understand the business need behind the project we were working on. Also, in the education system, there is an unhealthy focus on games programming. Now recreational computers software may be with us to stay or it may be a fad. Those committed to "the agenda" are obsessed with the idea of Britain regaining its leading position in games development. With competition from India and China however that looks as god a bet as a three legged horse in the Derby. The education system had done enough harm to western civilisation by cramming young minds with left wing ideology and politically correct propaganda without now setting out to create a new "scientific" elite so that we end up with people running the country who, in my experience of dealing with them, can't even run a bath.
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10 January 2012We Werre Right Again - Immigrants Are Keeping British People Out Of JobsA British worker is displaced from the jobs market for every four immigrants from nations outside the EU, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has revealed. The new report, published yesterday is the first official admission of the impact immigration has on British workers and the economy It showed migrants have been keeping resident workers out of jobs for many years. Jobseekers have long been aware that when they fill in an application form for a job whose description carries a note "Applications from member of ethnic or sexual minorities or people with physical disabilities are welcomed", if there is an applicant who fits into any of those groups all white, able bodies, straight applicants can forget it. Look how the government and local government sectors are a complete distortion of the balance population. One might be forgiven for thinking 50% of the population are of the dark skinned races. The chairman of the MAC, Prof. David Metcalf, criticised the use of GDP for estimating the effects of recently arrived foreign nationals as pro-immigration because more migrants will logically expand the economy according to such a crude measure. GDP measures the amount of money moving around in the economy so every time the government pumps tax revenue back into the economy by paying benefits and allowances GDP is expanded even though nothing has been made or sold. This kind of thinking belongs to the Labour Party and is what The Daily refers to as Loonytoons economics. The findings published in the MAC report are in contrast to a study by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (Niesr) which claimed the number of immigrants coming to the UK had little or no impact on the number of unemployed. This is a lie as any illiterate fule kno. RELATED POSTS: The Jobless Economoy Shock, Horror! Coalition Spending Cuts Cuts Will Mean 50,000. NHS Job Losses Unemployment Falls, Number Not Working Rises, It's Magic.The 99ers: Death Of The American Dream. More Graduates, Less Graduate Jobs The Jobs crisis - all posts
9 January 2012Scottish Separation ReferendumIf they want to go The Daily Stirrer says Let Them Go. We, the English, Welsh and Northern Irish will save a lot of money and we the English, freed of the over representation of Scotland in Parliament will be masters of our own destiny again.
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6 January 2012
Nursing In Crisis Says Prime Minister - We Tell Him Why
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8996771/David-Cameron-There-is-a-real-problem-with-nursing-in-our-hospitals.html
From The Daily Telegraph
Despite all the hot air blown by politicians of both sides over the last twenty years, relatives of elderly and sick people people tell "chilling stories" about the care their loved ones had received under the NHS while in hospital, Prime Minister David Camereon has said. There is a "real problem" with the standard of nursing in British hospitals, David Cameron has said, as he today calls on nurses to make hourly rounds to ensure patients are comfortable
Mr. Cameron told BBC journalists "I think everyone in the country hugely respects what Britain's nurses do, and I've seen for myself at first hand myself the very high standards of quality and care that the best nurses provide,". "But while we know that the vast majority do a brilliant job, there is clearly a problem in some hospitals, in some settings, where we are not getting the standards of care the nation expects. "I think politicians frankly have done nurses a bit of a disservice by not talking about this. Such is our respect for nursing that we've hidden away concerns about this. "But you've seen the Care Quality Commission reports. I've seen constituency correspondence with some chilling stories about how elderly relatives have been treated, so it's time to speak up about this issue, and absolutely key is to act on this issue." The Daily Stirrer will spell out for Dave exactly what the problem is. The rot set in when nursing became a degree - level entry profession. Where previously nurses trained on the job under the direct supervision of senior staff now they are let loose on wards with their heads full of theory and what little understanding of human nature they have gained from psychology boks and lectures. For the old style nurses patients were people first and foremost, now under the new bureaucratic approach to nursing patients are nothing more than a set of statistics and best, at worst an effing nuisance getting in the way of managers efforts to hit the all important targets.
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More Racism From Black Labour MP Diane AbbottDiane Abbott is facing fresh calls to resign after enraging Londons taxi drivers with a claim that they routinely refuse to pick up passengers who are black.After almost losing her job as a shadow health minister yesterday followeing her rabidly racist and anti - white tweets on microblogging site Twitter, Labour MP Diane Abbott has compounded her sin with another racists out burst, this time accusing London's black cab drivers of racism. She was ordered by partuy leader Ed Milliband to apologise over her comment on Twitter yesterday that white people love playing divide and rule and further remarke made to a black tweeter who said she and other self appointed black leaders were out of touch with the people they claim to speak for. It seemed that her apology had deflected the worst of the criticism, which included the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, condemning her as stupid and crass and her own party authorities issuing a public rebuke. Taxi drivers were outraged however when further irrataional racist outbursts by the Labour MP came to light. In these she alleged London's official cab drivers drive past black people who attempt to hail a cab. Miss Abbott, the MP for Hackney and Stoke Newington, tweeted: Dubious of black people claiming theyve never experienced racism. Ever tried hailing a taxi I always wonder? The Daily Stirrer wonders if Ms. Abbott's friends and family oughgt to be advising her to seek "professional" help. We've heard Taxi drivers decline to pick up passenger they think are drunk or who look undesirable, whatever their colour. And here Burnley, a friend of all of us, Adil, who runs a Taxi firm reports neither Asian or white taxi drivers will take passengers to any of the traveller sites in the area. According to Adil a cab dropping someone off will be surounded by travellers as the passenger refuses to pay. How would issues like that be dealt with in Ms. Abbot's Orwellian Utopia? Presumably black drivers will be free to refuse whoever they like but white drivers will face criminal charges if they do not pick up a minority member. And also face prosecution if they complain of passengers from minority groups not paying. Taxi drivers earn their living by picking up fares, they are not going to turn down money without good reason. Diane Abbott and those who think like her get more stupid with every day that passes.
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5 January 2012Are Lefties Revving Up For A Race WarMiss Abbott, the Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, was responding to a commentator who said she disliked the lazy and "monolithic" use of the term black community during coverage of the Stephen Lawrence murder trial.Bim Adewunmi, a freelance journalist, wrote on Twitter that she found many black "leaders" shown in the media to be out of touch with the people they purport to represent. Abbott, the shadow public health minister, replied, saying the comments were playing into a divide and rule agenda that is as old as colonialism. She said black people should not wash dirty linen in public. Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi called on Ms Abbott to step down. A healthy society should not tolerate any form of racism. DAbbott should apologise and resign or Ed M must sack her, he wrote on Twitter. IN AN EXCHANGE OF TWEETS with a blogger using the name bimadew Miss Abbott accused back people who seek to integrate into the mainsteam cultures of their respective nations, of playing into the old divide and rule policy of cononialism. Thus she has identifed herself with the racist, separatist, "you owe us,whitey" agenda put forward by the slick little millionaire felching race hustler Martin Luther King, his mentors the black supremacist Stokely Carmichael and the renegade Jew Saul Alinsky. bimadew was having none of it however, he tweeted back that like so many self elected "black conmmunity leaders she was completely out of touch with the people they purport to repreent. The so called Obama effect created in the wake of the USAs first black President has been to expose his campaign promises to be a unifier and conciliator as pious windbaggery. Driven by his racist agenda of penalising mainstream middle class whites in order to advance the interests of minorities he has polarised his country along racial lines more deeply that it has been divided since World War 2.
Obama The Racist
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Not White Abandoned by his father (who made something of a career out of seducing under age while girls and putting a bun in the oven) young Obama was shipped off by his teenage mother to his white grandparents. Years later Bammy, now Barry Soetoro was enrolled in the expensive and exclusive Punahou School, Hawaii and embarked on a quest for "back cred". He become Barack Hussein Obama but never legally changed his name. Newly black Obama wanted a race to belong to, a team whose accomplishments would reflect well upon him. Of course, it was unthinkable in his liberal white family to take pride in the achievements of his mothers race, self hatred was part of the creed of pseudo - liberal crypto - Stalinism so Obama gloried in being part of his absent fathers race. This reflected his total ignorance of African tribal culture of course. The "Dreams From My Father" he wrote of were nothing more that wild adolescent imaginings. From his early teens onward, Obama desperately wants to prove his blackness and be accepted. In "Dreams," he writes, "I was trying to raise myself to be a black man in America, and beyond the given of my appearance, no one around me seemed to know exactly what that meant." Honolulus paucity of African-Americans means he has to learn to be black from the media: "TV, movies, the radio; those were places to start. Pop culture was color-coded, after all, an arcade of images from which you could cop a walk, a talk, a step, a style. [I decided I would]...never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn'tt speak to my own. It was into my fathers image, the black man, son of Africa, that Id packed all the attributes I sought in myself..." Unfortunately his role model was the man of his fantasies as he knew nothing of his real father. On second thoughts that might not have been a bad thing. the reality of the wife beating polygamous paedophile drunk who was Barack Obama senior was a worse role model than an imaginary African American racist.. Obama even derides his grandparents, the people who would raise and nourish him, dismissing them as "Typical white folk." When his grandmother wants a ride to work because the day before, while awaiting the bus, she was threatened by a black panhandler, he is outraged -- at his grandmother. Obama consulted his communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a solipsist and another paedophile, about this incident and seeks advice. Davis responded to Obama, "What I'm trying to tell you is, your grandmother has every right to be scared. ... She understands that black people have a reason to hate. That's just how it is. For your sake, I wish it were otherwise. But it's not. So you might as well get used to it." So Obie was formed in a culture of race hate. Is it any wonder his Presidency has been animated by a virulent hatred of the whitre races. And yet he was never slow to play on his white middle class background when it suited him. Is it any wonder then that Obama's Presidency has set back race relations by fifty years and that long time race hustlers like Diane Abbott are jumping on his bandwagon in an attempt to further their own interests by exploiting the guilt addiction of left wing whites? Editor's note: This is not an issue we would normally get involved with as The Daily Stirrer line goes "Nobody is black, nobody is white so race baiters, lets get over this idiotic obsession with skin colour and admit the problems are cultural." Having said that and even though I thought some of the article was a bit strong I decided to include it as it represents a point of view that will be suppressed elsewhere.
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Another "We Told You So Moment" for The Daily Stirrer As Euro zone banks struggle to raise moneyThe scale of problems facing the eurozone was highlighted on Wednesday as shares in Italian financial group UniCredit crashed following the launch of a heavily discounted 7.5bn (Ł6.2bn) bond issue.After falling 15pc on Wednesday, shares were down 12pc in mid-afternoon trade at 4.766, after being suspended twice during an explosive trading session. Italian bank shares made up eight of the top ten fallers in the FTSE Mib index, with Banco Popolare falling 8.3pc and Intesa Sanpaolo down 5.7pc. The index as a whole fell 3.2pc to 14,837.59. French and German banks also led the fallers in their respective indices. Societe Generale fell 3.2pc, while Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank in Germany both fell 3.9pc. The CAC 40 in Paris fell 1pc to 3,163.41, while the DAX 30 in Frankfurt fell 0.7pc to 6,068.61. The FTSE 100 in London was down 0.4pc at 5,645.18 in mid-afternoon trade, with UK banks less affected by the general slide. The European Banking Authority has told lenders they must find 115bn of extra capital by June to reach a minimum core capital level of 9pc. Today, Thuirsday Jan 5th a failed Hungarian bond auction puts that nation which is in the EU but not part of the Euro single currency system, in imminent danger of having to default as it cannot raise funds to cover bonds due for redemption. News is also coming through of a failed bond auction in France which will but that major economy's credit rating at risk only months ahead of a Presidential election. Looks like we will be saying goodbeye to Nico the Gnome Sarkozy soon.
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4 January 2011A Slow News DayA terrible day for controversialists as far as news goes. The Steven Lawrence case finally concludes with two scrotes getting lengthy jail sentences for crimes we all knew for years they were guilty of. Mainsteam media is full of screaming headlines asking "What does this mean for race relations in Britain?"Absolutely nothing. There will always be race hate just as there will always be rape, murder and child abuse. The folly of leftoes and politically correct thinkes is nowjere more clearly demonstrated than in their fallacious belief that they can change human nature by passing laws. Elsewhere we hear the Euro zone is sliding back into recesiion. We have been teling our readers that was happening since last summer. And finally in the USA a botox man named Mitt Romney won the first Repiblublican party primary to select their candidate to oppose Obama later this year. Read more on this at Boggart Blog
3 January 2012Is Elderly Care Reform Report Too Focused On Protecting Children's Inheritances.A report from The Conservative Party's economic affairs committee has recommended wealthy people should be prepared to pay more for their care in old age, rather than relying on the state.Sir Andrew Dilnot's committe suggests individuals sould pay for the first Ł35,000 of their care, after which the state would foot the bill. In a letter published by The Daily Telegraph today, 60 leading experts and representatives of charities demand "political leadership" to prevent 800,000 frail pensioners enduring a life of loneliness. Conservative MP John Redwood said on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, "Looking at the Dilnot report, which is a very good, detailed report, it had a bit too much on trying to protect the inheritance of the children of the elderly people concerned and not quite enough on what I think is the bigger issue: how we make sure no elderly person is faced with inadequate or inappropriate care. We need to discuss the contribution they make as opposed to the contribution taxpayers make to afford it." Mr. Redwood added"This idea that there's a maximum of Ł35,000 and then everything else is free for everybody may not be affordable. If somebody is very rich why should their estate not make a contribution to that? It could be deferred; that the elderly person gets the best possible care and then the bill could be settled out of their estate after they've unfortunately died." His comments came as David Cameron warned hundreds of thousands of elderly people are being deprived of their dignity by Englands failing social care services which leave them at risk of terrible abuse and neglect. Lord Warner, a member of the Dilnot Commission and a former Labour health minister, said the report provided an adequate framework on which to build reforms of the system.
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1 January 2012Happy New Year everyone!
30 December 2011
No News worth our attention today. Here is something to make you smile at Boggart Blog:
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29 December 2011We hope you all had an excellent Christmas break. Back to business as usual.The Euro is in trouble, reports that Italy had enjoyed a respite from it's economic woes after a very successful debt auction turned out to be widly exaggerated. Elsewhere Iran threatened to cut off the west's main oil supply route and North Korea's new leader threatened to cut off the head of anyone who did not appear sufficiently grief stricken during the period of official mourning for his dear old Dad Kim Jong Il. But you don't want to read such dross today so here's a story about the yellow peril. We're not being racist here, this yellow peril is intelligent slime that can think like humans (i.e. it's about a billion times more intelligent than the computers that are supposed to be able to almost think like humans). At Hakodate, northern Japanwhere the rather ambitiously named Future University can be found, Professor Toshiyuki Nakagaki has cultivated intelligent slime in petri dishes and claims he has discovered how the brainless organism is capable of finding its way out of a maze. According to Prof. Nakagaki the slime is able to organise its cells to create the most direct route through a maze in order to reach a source of food. Wow, that's amazing you might well think but pause for a moment and consider how resourceful lower life forms are at finding food sources. We are not talking about cats or squirrels here, nor even chavs, but really low life forms such as algae.. There are algae that can live in places without light, deep caves for example. There are algae that have adapted to survive the near boiling temeratures of volcanic springs the better to exploit the rich supply og nutrients bubbling up from the bowels of the earth. There are bateria that have found their niche in human bowels and survive there even after the host organism (someone like you, maybe) has eaten a very hot curry. Life at its loweest level is very resilitent and the survival instingct is strong. "Humans are not the only living things with information-processing abilities," Prof. Nakagaki said. "Simple creatures can solve certain kinds of difficult puzzles. If you want to spotlight the essence of life or intelligence, it's easier to use these simple creatures." So do these findings about food seeking slime highlight how slime mould possesses information processing abilities shared by humans which are far more sophisticated than the most advanced computers? According to Professor Nakagaki they do. Clearly the Professor has never ventured into the kitchen of a house whose occupiers hygiene standards were lax. I recommend watching a few episodes of Kim and Aggie the celebrity cleaning ladies.
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24 December 2011Merry Christmas to all our readersand thank you for reading us in 2011. We are taking a few days off now and will be back around the middle of next week. Best wishes from John, Xavier and Ian plus other people who have contributed from time to time. We have had enough of serious stuff. For Some seasonal fun go to Boggart Blog
23 December 2011The War On Christmas
There are two wars on Christmas: one public and baloney, one conceptual and terrifying. The first usually involves a group of Scrooge - like atheists (who claim to be secular humanists although their ideal world would be populated by unthinking droids whose idea of a good time is doing mathematics) Bah! Humbug! they say at all our Christmas traditions as they try to ban nativity scenes (Christian), Christmas light displays (Hindu, pagan) Christmas Trees (North European pagan) tasty treats and excessive boozing (Celtic pagan) and trying to ruin everybodys fun on the grounds that one persons fun is bound to be offensive to someone, somewhere.
Take this story from Santa Monica, California (the global capital of politically correct craziness). For decades Palisades Park has displayed the traditional religious tableaux at Christmas the Virgin and Child, the three wise men, shepherds etc, all the mixed myths BTW if you want to know how the Ox, the Ass, the goat and the eagle got in on the act. Take a look at Chapter 1 in the Old Testament book of Ezekiel.) Back to idiocy of California. This year a lottery was introduced to allow other groups to compete for space at Palisades Park to put on displays relevant to their mid - winter festival. Unbelievably a bunch of militant atheists won and were permitted to put up images of Satan, Jesus and Father Christmas, with the tagline: 37 million Americans know a myth when they see one What myths do you see? Boggart Blog sees four, the aforementioned three (apologies if you are a Christian, a Satanist or aged under 6) and the one represented by the bunch of twunts responsible for this smug, pompous piece of idiocy trying to deny that science and atheism are not a religion to them. Not only is their fanatical and dogmatic belief in The Protocols Of Science a giveaway but their interpretation of atheism as requiring from it's followers a pathological hated of all other religions put them among the most extreme and dangerous of fanatical cults. California is of course the centre of this madness but under the leadership of The Evil Emperor Obama killjoyism and fuckwitted control freakery is speading. In a South Carolina cancer center, a 67-year-old volunteer Santa was evicted because of the different cultures and beliefs of the patients we care for." In an elementary school in Stockton, California, the traditional Christmas houseplant, poinsettias were banned but somehow snowmen were permitted; the discrimination was justified by saying there was a Sikh temple in the city and the Sikhs might have been offended. Notice a pattern here? Nobody has actually complained they they were offended by these traditional things, is is merely the sad, lonely, miserable pokenoses and control freaks of the militant atheist politically correct thought police who have taken upon themselves to protect minorities from the possibility that they might be offended. Ironically the minorities are more likely to be offended by the usurpation by the Thought Police of these groups right to decide for themselves what offends their principles. For us to get overheated about this sort of thing is exactly what the perps want. The kind of sad dysfunctional loner with personal hygiene issues and a passion for theoretical physics, who can find time among all their hectic social round of chatting with their alter ego on Facebook or Twitter, reading science books, playing round the clock sessions of World of Warcraft online to take part in protests against a display of poinsettias as an affront to multicultural tolerance probably spends Christmas horribly alone and is simply as desperate for attention as they are clueless about how to attract it. The best thing to do is to ignore them. Or, if the fall asleep in your house, bored by all the jollity, good cheer, bad jokes and over indulgence you could write Merry Christmas, you miserable fucker on their forehead (don't forget the mirror image effect) in indelible felt tip. Well I'm off to deck the halls with boughs of Holly (pagan) light the Yule log (pagan) hang Miseltoe in the doorway (very pagan), give a couple of quid to the Carol Singers (Christianish) and have a little smooch with V.K. (Hindu) while my wife is not looking. Merry Multicultural Christmas everyone.
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22 December 2011by John de RoeAfter a year marked by partisan squabbling, Republicans and Democrats in the American congress were at loggerheads on Wednesday over how to extend a cut in payroll tax introduced last year for more than 150m Americans. HSBC Bank (the world's second largest) said failure to extend the tax will cut growth in the US economy by 0.5pc in 2012, a year in which Wall Street was planning on the economy expanding by 2.2pc. With a likely European recession already casting a shadow over Asia, many were looking to the USA to play a bigger role in driving global growth next year. This was always a wish rather than a realistic ambition given the systemic problems in the American economy and the inability of a government enmired in ideological puritanism to address them. The paralysis in Washington comes alongside mixed data from the US housing market. Sales of existing homes rose 4.4pc in November compared with October, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) said, adding to the better news on homebuilding activity that cheered investors on Tuesday. However, the NAR also revised down figures for the amount of homes sold between 2007 and 2010. While growth is stalling - and what growth there is largely illusory while ilflation is running ahead of the increae in GDP which means that in real terms the US economy is contracting - the real jobless figures are a bigger concern for the Obama administration. The American government, like the British government, massages figures by only counting people claiming jobseekers allowance and dropping the long term unemployed whose approx. two year entitlement to the higher benefit have expired and who therefore are deemed for statistical purposes as no longer seeking work. While this keeps the headlines figure lower than the real number of jobless it no longer fools the public. Only a couple of weeks ago a British television network screened a documentary, perhaps in response to Obama's sniping at EU leaders about the ongoing crisis in the European economy. "President" Obama has been trying to blame Europe for the world's economic ills and pretend America's problems are nothing to do with the loonytoons economic policies pursued by his administration. The documentary showed stock footage of inner city decay in places like Detroit and the industrial cities of Pennsylvania and Ohio, the hopelessness descending to despair of the inhabitants of tents cities some of whom had had homes repossessed, others who had simply walked away from the ruins of their former lives. We should regard any positive economic news with the deepest suspicion. As The Daily Stirrer reported last week, even the Chinese economic bubble is bursting now.
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Wave Of Sectarian Violence Kills Dozens In BaghdadA wave of 16 bombings ripped across Baghdad Thursday, killing at least 69 people in the worst violence in Iraq for months. The apparently coordinated attacks struck days after the last American forces left the country and in the midst of a major government crisis between Shiite and Sunni politicians that has sent sectarian tensions soaring.The Daily Stirrer toild you two years ago this is exactly what would happen once the last American troops left. It was a racing certainty from the moment that jug eared streak of piss opened his stupid mouth, unleashed his uncontrollable ego and announced a pullout date.
21 December 2011No real news again today so here's a shocking story of dumbing down.
When exam boards spoonfeed answers to children there is no hope for education.The truly extraordinary thing about the latest exam board scandal is that the board in question felt it necessary to help children cheat. That is to say, the WJEC thought the questions it was setting in its GCSE exam in Information and Communications Technology were so difficult that children would only be able to cope if the answers were provided to their teachers in advance ... (click the headline to read full article)
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20 December 2011Divinity, Dawkins and A PopeThe Infallibility Of Science, The Divinity Of Jesus and A PopeWhen a question about why so many seemingly rational people accept the idea of Jesus's divinity was posted at a site I use a very lively thread developed. Strangely it was not the Christians who were pedantic and resistant to new ideas but people who claim they are atheists and agnostics.
19 December 2011Healthy Active Girl Branded Obese by the Thought Policeby Xavier ConnollyThe parents of a healthy and active seven-year-old girl have been left angered after health chiefs warned she was borderline obese. Libbie Boardman, a budding gymnast, was weighed and measured as part of a pilot scheme in Bolton, Greater Manchester. The schoolgirl, who is 4ft 2in tall and weighs 5st 5lb, was described as being at the top end of the overweight category by neo - Nazi penpushers working for the NHS Bolton, bordering on clinically obese. Libbie has a body mass index (BMI) centile of 97. Between 91 and 97 is overweight, and 98 and above is clinically obese. She had her height and weight measured by NHS staff to calculate their BMI as part of a scheme to crackdown on childhood obesity. We asked were the fascist nut jobs responsible for this program safe to be let out among school childred. An NHS spokesman assured us they are all clinically sane. The test results have left Libbie's family, who live in Bolton, Greater Manchester, shocked and angry. They say the results are the results are misleading as Libbie is an active child who excels at gymnastics. "I do not know how they can say she is overweight. If you look at her, you will say 'where the heck have they got that from?'," said father Paul, 43. "I have taken her to the doctors and was told the numbers are right, but they told me not to worry or do anything because she is fine. They are just numbers and statistics, they don't take into account the individual or look at other things such as the child's build." What Mr. Boardman is missing here is that as far as neo - Nazi scientists and control freak NHS bureaucrats are concerned there are no individuals, only statistics. Mr Boardman reported he was obsession with body mass index could be dangerous and children may worry about their weight unneccesarily. He added: "Libbie has been saying things like she does not want any tea. But I said 'don't be silly'. She eats a balanced diet with rice and pasta. She doesn't have junk food, just the odd treat now and again." It is understood that there have been at other complaints about this control freak scheme from parents of children at Highfield Primary School, where Libbie attends. The initiative was launched in a bid to tackle the high obesity rate in parts of the town - one in three youngsters are overweight when they reach the age of 11. Results are sent home to parents detailing if their child is a healthy weight, underweight, overweight or very overweight, and parents are given advice to address this. Health chiefs defended the programme and stressed the need for action to tackle childhood obesity in Bolton. But they admitted the results could prove misleading for some children. A spokesman for NHS Bolton said: "The Department of Health has recommended that Body Mass Index (BMI) is the most appropriate way to judge a child's weight. Once again we see an illustration of fuckwit scientists being unable to see human beings as diverse individuals.
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17 December 2011French seek to heal rift with Britain as suddenly they are the isolated onesLead story in The Daily Telegraph today reported Nicolas Sarkozy was looking increasingly isolated last night as France faced losing its AAA credit rating and David Cameron held "positive" discussions with the German chancellor.Over at our satirical blog we tried to do our bit for unity in a post titled
Britain's Fishing Industry Angry As EU Stabs Fishermen In The Backby Ian R ThorpeUnder new EU fishing rules the British fishing fleet will be allowed to catch bigger quotas but it faces an estimated 15 to 25 per cent cut in the number of days at sea following a marathon negotiation session which ended at dawn on Saturday in Brussels. As a result of the deal the UKs fleet will be forced to spend more time in port than ever before. The new rules will make it almost imposible for trawlers to take advantage of some big rises in fish catch quotas agreed following the success of conservation measures in British waters. Britain resisted the moves to cut fishing boats days at sea to just four a fortnight next year, in exchange for greater national fish conservation efforts. But boats will still be confined to ports for longer than before. The number of days each vessel is allowed out will be cut from 105 days a year to 90, though vessels will be able to 'buy back' extra days by avoiding cod fishing as part of tougher environmental protection measures.
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16 December 2011"Tesco Tax" The First Step Towards Saving Our TownsWhen Northern Ireland Finance Minister Sammy Wilson announced his "Tesco Tax" a planned levy on big stores intended to underwrite tax breaks for small, independent businesses and go some way towards redressing the balance after small shops were forced during thirteen years of Labour misrule to fund tax breaks offered to entice global retail corporations to set up shop in out of town big shed developments he expected a reaction from the corporate retailers. He did not however expect such a hypocritical outbreak of orchestrated whining considering Labour's favouritism to the retail giants has resulted in up to a third of shops in some traditional town centres standing empty.
Swedish Mr Wilson said he had listened to what the big retailers had to say and had cut the tax they would have to pay. "The levy has been reduced from 20% to 15% saving Ikea Ł70,000," he said. Pity, that, he should have hit them with an extra levy for having the nerve to whine. The so-called "Tesco tax" has been fiercely opposed by most large retailers who said it could limit investment and cost jobs. On average big retailers will pay an extra charge of Ł66,000 a year, raising Ł5m. It will affect 76 large shops. Well Ł66,000 a year is peanuts compared to what these hyper stores make so you have no need to feel sorry for them. Let's explode a forty year old myth to put the whinging in perspective. It has long been the case in mainsteam media to toe the government propaganda (Ministy of Truth) line that when a new hyperstore opens hundreds of jobs are created, (you've heard the announcements on local news). Nobody ever quantifies how many jobs are lost from small businesses that can no longer survive. The finance minister argued that the "Tesco tax" is designed to help small businesses. "The whole aim is to create a more level playing field. It is about what we do to stimulate the small business end of the economy," he said. Good, in spite of the fuckwiited windbaggery about level playing fields from Tony Blair and other Labour leaders for too long small businesses were playing up an ever steepening slope as The Peoples' Party helped the people who are most generous; billionaires, tycoons, bankers, lawyers and speculators. Think back to the report from Mary Portas on high street shops published earlier this week, the harm done to small businesses and communities by corporate friendly government policies and bureaucratic smothering of startup enterprises was highlighted there. And it is not recent, this cosyness between elected politicians, gravy train riding tax eaters and greedy corporate execs has gone on for decades. More recently they have been attacking local employers by enacting measures aimed at pushing business online. On the whole any news that suggest government is trying to get itself out of the pockets of big business is to be welcomed.
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15 December 2011China's Credit Bubble Bursts - Just As The Daily Stirrer Predicted.by John de RoeChina's credit bubble has burst spectacularly, just asd The Dasily Stirrer predicted it would. In xxxxx we said hopes expressed by the Obama administration in the US and by the unelected bureaucrats who run the EU that the Chinese might step in to buy up Euro zone toxic debt were delusional because China's economic boom would turn to bust by the end of the year. It is never easy to get reliable information on what is happening in China but when the country's Homelink property website reports that new home prices in Beijing fell 35pc in November from the month before something is very wrong. If this is remotely true, the soft-landing planned by Chinese government economists has fallen of the rails and risks charging out of control into recession, dragging the nation behind it. Chinese stocks have been blinking alarm messages since May this year . The Shanghai index has fallen 30pc since then and is now 60pc below its peak in 2008, almost as much as Wall Street sank from 1929 to 1933. "Investors are massively underestimating the risk of a hard-landing in China and other BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China)... alternatively 'Bloody Ridiculous Investment Concept' in my view," said Albert Edwards at Societe Generale. "The BRICs are dropping like bricks and the crises are home-blown, caused by their own boom-bust credit cycles and fall in demand from western consumers these economies depended on.. Industrial production is already falling in India, and Brazil will soon follow." "There is so much spare capacity that they may soon have to start dumping goods, risking a deflation shock for the rest of the world. It is not surpising that China has just imposed tariffs on imports of cars. I think it is highly likely that China will devalue the yuan next year, risking a trade war," he said. China's $3.2 trillion foreign reserves have been falling for three months, market data shows, despite the trade surplus. Money is flowing out of the country. "One-way capital inflow or one-way bets on a yuan rise have become history. Our foreign reserves are basically falling every day," Li Yang, a former central bank rate-setter said in a press release. Fitch Ratings said China is hooked on credit, but deriving ever less punch from each dose. An extra dollar in loans increased GDP by $0.77 in 2007. It is $0.44 in 2011. "The reality is that China's economy today requires significantly more financing to achieve the same level of growth as in the past," said China analyst Charlene Chu.
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Parecetamol poisoning is a nasty way to dieBy Andrew M Brown, Daily TelegraphThere is a very sad story in the paper and on the website today about a young woman who accidentally poisoned herself with paracetamol. Desiree Phillips, 20, seems to have suffered a staggered overdoses of paracetamol over the course of a few days during which she may have exceeded the recommended dose, but possibly not by much. This case illustrates how dangerous this common medicine is, and I have every sympathy for Miss Phillips and her family and anyone else in this appalling situation. Research on patients suffering paracetamol-induced liver injury has actually shown that those who took staggered overdoses over the course of a few days were a third more likely to die than those who took a single overdose, as part of a suicide attempt, for example. Paracetamol is a nasty drug. You may poison yourself by mistake, but by the time you start feeling unwell you may be approaching the end of the (roughly) three-day window in which the antidote, acetylcysteine, can save you. Would-be suicides may take a handful of pills expecting to drift into a pleasant sleep, only to find that nothing happens. By the next day they may well have changed their minds about killing themselves but it's too late: the drug, by then, is already doing its best to destroy their liver. Read full article on Paracetamol Poisoning
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Tories embrace Labour government poke nose strategyby Ian R ThorpeDave has today revealed plans to create another Politically Correct Thought Police hit squad, the problem families and fat children unit. The new squad will work closely with the alcohol abuse team which will be doubled in size and given the power to physically abuse anyone suspected of even thinking about having a drink and also with the SALT (Sodium Adders Legal Termination ) team who will kill anybody found putting salt on food, the tenth hand cigarette smoke protection squad, responsible for arresting anyone who exhales in a public place after being in a room with someone who had been in a room with someone who had been in a room with someone who had been in a room with someone who was smoking a cigarette and other special units responsible for policing any outbreaks of tasty food, loud music, possibly offensive joke telling and the anti - individualism unit . What we are looking at is taxpayer -funded campaign aimed at stopping the taxpayers who democratically elected the democratic government from doing anything a small, unelected and unrepresentative cabal of academics, experts, bureaucrats and self appointed guardians of the national morals do not approve of. These Government box-ticking exercises only serve to piss off the electorate and alienate the populace even more from the self styled elite. Every social problem identified or imagined by the chatterati is deemed to require government solution and, because government solution is a contradiction in terms, then government interference and meddling is substituted. And if no particular social problem is offering itself as being in need of a government solution, dont worry, The Politically Correct Thought Police will make a few up. The first thing to notice about this obsession of paid employees (rather than elected representatives who meekly do as they are told) of the state with micro managing all our doings is that it doesnt work. As soon as the government started to hassle us about alcohol consumption we had a binge drinking problem where previously we had had a small percentage of boozers who knew they were killing themselves and didn't care.Before the government started worrying about our consumption of saturated fat we had as many fat people as thin people. Now anyone who is not so undernourished they can be diagnosed anorexic is clinically obese, morbidly obese (dead fat) or in danger of becoming obese. The fact is none of these campaigns to change our behaviour actually work If they did the perceived problems would have been solved by now instead of coming back time after time as scientists look for new research grants. The truth is solving social problems is not really on the agenda. The whole of this moralistic style of government, the stuffing of newspapers with health scare stories and flooding of the air-waves with shock, horror pictures of fat people,l thin people, kids smoking, having unprotected sex, behaving badly, alcoholics rooting in rubbish bins for a drink is necessary because our socialistic public realm has thousands upon thousands of tax eaters, field workers, advisers, counsellors, coordinators, administrators, outreach workers and whole departments of managers and support staff. And somehow the tax eaters at middle management level and higher have to give the impression all the people employed to swell their bureaucratic empires actually look as if they have something to do to earn the wage we, the taxpayers, pay them. . It is the modern bureaucratic version of Parkinsons old law about waste in the civil service: Work expands to fill the time available, he said. So now the number of social ills increases in direct proportion to the number of councillors and support workers and outreach workers and the ant colonies of administrative droids employed to cure or at lease alleviate the suffering caused by those social ills. We are living under a regime which could be described as "populist authoritarianism". The aim seems so worthy none dare oppose the wasting of huge amounts of money and resources on solving the invented problem. And the drawback to populist authoritarianism is like any kind of oligarchic collectivism, apart from the huge and pointless expense of controlling people capable of looking after themselves, it always evolves from a gentle nudging of the public towards conformity to a fanatical rush towards fascism. Research, surveys, reports, quangos, and propaganda will do nothing to alleviate these perceived or invented social problems and are not intended to. Abstractions, committees and statistics have no interface with life as we live it. The political and academic classes are totally detached from reality they have no inkling of how ordinary people live. What is required to solve such problems as truly exist is the individual will, personal responsibility. But T.S. Eliot put this better than anyone back in 1934 when he defined our present delusions as, men dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. There has never been a better description of political-correctness than that. And what is wrong with dreaming of perfection? the politically correct thinkers might well ask. Well nothing so long as it stays in the realm of dreams because dreams and reality are like oil and water, they have never mixed well.
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14 December 2011Unity On Eurozone Fourth Reich Starts To Crumbleby Ian R ThorpeOver the past few days there has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth from supporters of Euronaziism and the global governance control freaks of the progressive left about David Cameron's flat refusal to agree to regulation of Britain's financial affairs by unelected bureaucrats from Brussels. To hear the lefties and one worlders you would think that Cameron could not have isolated Britain more from the other nations of Europe had he made paedophilia compulsory. Get away from the biased reporting of the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation and those publications that present themselves as mature, balanced news organs but are in fact crypto Stalinist syphilis sores on the bell end of the media's organ, The Guardian, The Independent and The Daily Mirror and one senses a different mood in Europe. More EU countries, both non members of the single currency and some that are in the Euro zone are starting to question last week's treaty agreement to centralise tax and spending powers. At home, with our sovereignty seemingly defended by David Cameron's veto, concern is growing over the UK's contribution to eurozone bail-out funds. Elsewhere, in polls predicting the outcome of next year's French Presidential election Nico the Gnome trails front runner Marine Le Pen, leader of the right wing National Front and the virtually unknown socialist candidate. Angela Merkel prepares to address the German parliament which is in a rebellious mood with her ruling coalition close to collapse. The Czech leader Petr Necas said "there is not much more than a blank sheet of paper" on offer at the moment. Within the euro, Ireland's PM Enda Kenny was facing calls to put the plans for more central control over tax and spending to a referendum, and Holland's leader Mark Rutte also under pressure. Italy and Greece have already had democracy suspended and are being run by bureaucrats appointed by Brussels. It seems the only nations wholeheartedly supporting the new treaty that would establish greater fiscal union are those nations that are permanently skit and dependent for financial survival on handouts from Brussels anyway. Britain, to remind those with short memories, is the second largest net contributor to the EU budget, stumping up Ł40 million a day to feed the bloated, greedy monster. For possibly the have taken the same line on events in Europe in this morning's papers. The Financial Times and the Daily Mail,in agreement possibly for the first time in recorded history, say cracks are starting to show in the agreement reached between 26 of the 27 EU nations last Friday, with Britain the odd one out as David Cameron was granted the power to act while other leaders have to put forward the changes to their own parliaments and electorates. Now, the FT says, "the pressure is acute in non-eurozone countries where at least four governments warned that the precise text would determine whether they could sign up or otherwise join the UK on the sidelines." The much hyped deal last week did not really buy time for the Euro zone leaders to solve the crisis, it was merely a stay of the inevitable execution. It will be weeks, possibly only two or three weeks, rather than months before the debt contagion and accompanying economic mayhem breaks out again. The system is essentially FUBAR, but eurozone policymakers are still trying to bodge it up with bits of wire and a squirt of WD40 rather than consigning it to the scrapyard. The only way to fix the problem would be for all the nations of Europe to stop spending more than they rake in. And that cannot happen as long as the EU, with its overgenerous benefits and social care systems continues. Now if we hadn't exported all the industry to China and India, if we hadn't listened to all those idiot academics who talked about a "knowledge economy", the internet and green technology being the job creators of the future (they are both job killers) or the most moronic blether about national governments and corporate interests paying us for the pointless "science" being done in universities, we might hve a chance. Until we kill all the intellectual idiots however, they will just keep steering us further up shit creek.
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13 December 2011War On The High Street Is Just A Skirmish In The War On Our Way Of Lifeby Ian R ThorpeIt seems the mainstream media are for the first time acknowledging the government, lackeys of fascistic corporate interests and banks, have been complicit in the waging a war on the Hiigh Stret and local shops. The weaponse have been generous tax breaks for global corporations who wanted to open for business in out of town "Big Shed" developments and the lax regulation of internet commerce which allowed fraudsters to prosper as neo Nazi outfits like Amazon boosted profits by treating employees like slaves and and drove independent bookshops out of business. Figures published today show that more than 50% of total consumer spending is now off British high streets for the first time in history. The shock statistic is revealed with the publication of a report compiled by Mary Portas, retailing consultant and star of the BBC's Mary Queen of Shops programme. The retail expert has come up with a plan to rejuvenate Britain's ailing high streets, some of which she claims are in crisis. The independent review, commissioned by the office of the Prime Minister David Cameron, also maintains that numbers of empty premises in town centres have doubled over the past two years. "I believe that our high streets have reached a crisis point. Unless urgent action is taken, much of Britain will lose, irretrievably, something that is fundamental to our society, and which has real social and economic worth to our communities," she told media representatives, continuing to make the following points. "I would like to state from the start that this report is not about pointing fingers of blame. "While I do believe that there are many compelling instances where out-of-town retail has drained the traffic and shopping trade from our town centres, it would be naive and far too easy simply to think that they are to blame for the decline of our high streets. "The fact is that the major supermarkets and malls have delivered highly convenient, needs-based retailing, which serves today's consumers well. Sadly, the high streets didn't adapt as quickly or as effectively. Now they need to." Ms Portas then called for change and recommended licensing rules on high street stalls be relaxed and that a national market day be introduced. She also wants free parking in certain areas, some form of high street management system to form coherent policies, as well as a review of business rates and shop rents. In recent years the government of Labour (the people's party according to its PR but in reality the party of big money, powers, lawyers and academics) has bent over backwards to help global corporate retailers crush small, independent business. The offered easing on planning restrictions for out of town "big shed" retail developments and tax breaks for the multinationals that moved into them, local councils and particularly Labour councils still fihhting the 1930s class war, sought to exploit car owners shopping in town centres with draconian parking restrictions, punitive fines for minor breaches of local regulations and over zealous enforcement of punitive measures such as wheel clamping. Ms Portas also sopke of the other great job killers promoed with the aid of control freak governments: "The phenomenal growth of online retailing, the rise of shopping by smartphone, television shopping channels, the speed and sophistication of the major national and international retailers, the epic and immersive experiences offered by today's new breed of shopping mall, combined with a crippling recession, have all conspired to change today's retail landscape. New expectations have been created in terms of value, service, entertainment and experience against which the average high street has, in many cases, failed to deliver. "The only hope our high streets have of surviving is to recognise what has happened and to provide something new." The Daly Stirrer has reported on all this before. We are glad someone else has noticed the war being waged on our way of life by authoritarian governmebts and control freak elites.
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Faith and the Priests Of The New Physicsby Xavier Connolly
Faith and the Priests Of The New Physicsby Xavier Connolly
This morning the world of
Physicists working at the Cern laboratory in Geneva have summoned colleagues from around the world to a If the hints in their data that something current science cannot explain might possibly be going on and this is later proved to be correct, it would confirm a theory first proposed in 1964 by Peter Higgs at Edinburgh University and provide the final piece of evidence for the Standard Model, which proposes there is stuff going on in the universe we don't understand.. The secrecy surrounding the results is such that the two separate groups searching for the subatomic particle have not been told what each others results show. This means there is still a great deal of uncertainty - even among the physicists leading the search for the elusive particle - how strong the evidence for or against its existence is. In the event it was revealed both ATLAS and CMS, the two detectors monitoring particle collisions in the Large Hadron Collider, are widely rumoured to have detected bumps in their data which suggest the presence of a Higgs boson. Scientists remained cautious about their findings and insisted they did not represent an official discovery, but admitted the results were "intriguing". The two teams searching for the Higgs boson at the LHC said they had found hints which point towards a Higgs boson with a mass between 124 and 126 gigaelectronvolts (GeV). (The electron volt (symbol eV; also written electronvolt[1][2]) is a unit of energy equal to approximately 1.602×10-19joule (symbol J). By definition, it is the amount of energy gained by the charge of a single electron moved across an electric potential difference of one volt. Thus it is 1 volt (1 joule per coulomb, 1 J/C) multiplied by the electron charge (1 e, or 1.602176565(35)×10-19 C). Therefore, one electron volt is equal to 1.602176565(35)×10-19 J) A mass of 125 GeV is equivalent to about 130 times the weight of a proton found in the nucleus of an atom. Popular estimates hold that the nucleus of an atom is somewhere in the region of 1 billionth of an inch. The measurement from the CERN team, according to their presentation means there would be at most a one-in-20 likelihood of the sign in their data having happened by chance rather than signalling a real effect, but to claim a formal discovery this would have to be reduced to one in a million. The critical question is whether these rumoured "bumps" appeared at the same point in each team's data, which would leave little doubt behind closed doors at Cern that the findings were accurate. Prof Jon Butterworth, head of the British section of the ATLAS team, said yesterday: "We know what results we have got and we are excited, but on their own ours would not even be particularly compelling as evidence - it depends that the bigger picture looks like when we know what the other guys have got." Staff have been told by Cerns director-general, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, that the teams will stop short of announcing a discovery but Prof Butterworth said the results could mark the beginning of the end for the experiment with a conclusive result expected next year. He said: "It is certainly a massive step in the end game of the Higgs hunt. This will be a major step forward and the Higgs will either have even less places to hide or it will look like the answer. "Now we are seeing the textbooks being written, and we don't know what is going to be on the next page." How many time have the boy scientists got all excited before only to find the tiny burst of energy registering on their sensors were nothing at all? One previous "discovery" at CERN turned out to be the pull exerted by the moon's gravitional field on the surface of Lake Geneva that causes the lake's tiny tide. So this latest excitement could easily be caused by the shock waves from a cockroach farting somewhere in the tunnel. And to pre - emp the inevitable question, do I understand what the LHC project is all about. Yes, simples, it is to extend the free ride of a bunch of otherwise unemployable nerds on a taxpayer funded gravy train.
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10 December 2011David Cameron Isolated As EuroNazis Try To Save The Single Nation Projectby John de RoeSenior analysts and traders in the financial markets have warned that bank failures are likely as the summit convened to work out a way to save the Euro and solve the European debt crisis failed to deliver a solution. The only positive outcome of the meeting was that David Cameron vetoed a deal which would have given a huge chunk of Britain's national sovereignty away by handing over to the unelected bureaucrats of Brussels oversight of our national finances including taxation policy. The European Central Bank admitted it had held meetings about providing emergency funding to the region's struggling banks, however City figures said a "collateral crunch" was imminent as the ECB did not control the kind of funds needed to pull off such a rescue. This explains who the French and Germans were so keen to obtain regulatory powers over The City of London, the world's largest financial trading centre. "If anyone thinks things are getting better then they simply don't understand how severe the problems are. I think a major bank could fail within weeks," said one London-based executive at a major global bank. A sure sihgnal that we should ignore the hyperbolic windbaggery of politicians who are now in the business of trying to shift blame. Many European banks, including some French, Italian and Spanish lenders, have already run out of many of the acceptable forms of collateral such as US Treasuries and other liquid securities used to finance short-term loans and have been forced to resort to pawning their gold reserves to maintain access to dollar funding. "The system is creaking. There is a large amount of stress," said Anthony Peters, a strategist at Swissinvest, pointing to soaring interbank lending rates. And if the Swiss are worried, we are really up shit creek. A weekly funding report circulated among banks said the ECB had effectively become the central clearer for the region's banks as lenders are increasingly distrustful about funding one another. Bank deposits with the ECB now stand at their highest level since June 2010 at 905bn (Ł772bn). Lenders are withdrawing deposits held with their other banks and placing them into the central bank. Banks in major eurozone countries such as France and Italy are simultaneously becoming increasingly reliant on central bank funding. This follows the trend seen in smaller countries like Ireland where commercial lenders have effectively becomes taxpayer-funded "zombie" banks. Alastair Ryan, a banks analyst at UBS, said there would be "no Lehman moment" or single catastrophic event for the European banking sytem, but added that without a full backstop of bank liabilities by governments the system would "struggle to finance itself in the next year in a durable way. The system at the moment hasn't got funding of a duration that allows it to function, so it's failing," he said. Others think the eurozone banks are heading for a catastrophe and the worry is growing that a major bank could collapse within weeks.
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British Households Are Better Off Than Germany's (kind of puts this euro business into perspective)
9 December 2011Britain Saved From Becoming A Province Of Germany As Cameron Grows A Pair.In the nick of time David Cameron grew a pair of balls, stood up to the dark forces of Euronaziism and vetoed a crucial EU treaty deal that would have seen Britain's finances overseen by German financiers and the unelected bureaucrats of Brussels.Mr. Cameron's veto leaves 23 of the other 27 EU nations to thrash out plans for tougher central control of eurozone tax and spending. Delegates from Sweden, Hungary and the Czech Republic will consult their Parliaments before deciding whether to support this Franco - German power grab. The European Union has suffered the most damaging split in its 54 year history after David Cameron blocked a eurozone treaty change after France and Germany refused to consider safeguards to protect Britains economy and particularly the banking and finance centre in The City of London..Britain was left isolated this morning with the three other countries, Sweden, Hungary and the Czech Republic, as an exultant Nicolas Sarkozy, strutting around like a jackbooted little Hitler boasted of a historic breakaway euro plus bloc that would pursue fiscal and economic union via a new treaty outside the EU. Mr. Sarkozy forgets he has to face his electorate next year and is already a hugely unpopular President. His willingness to hand control of French fiscal policy to Germany and Brussels is not going to play well to nationalustic French voters. The Prime Minister insisted that he had been prepared to support treaty change among all 27 of the EUs members to allow the 17-strong eurozone to take measures to tackle its debt crisis and to enforce tough new fiscal rules for the single currency. After 11 hours of bad-tempered talks however, Mr Cameron said that he had blocked the changes because France and Germany and refused to agree to a protocol giving the City of London protection from a wave of EU financial service regulations related to the eurozone crisis. I came here with one of two outcomes in mind: safeguards that made a treaty within a treaty, a complex legal structure, or if we could not have that, allowing others to go off in a treaty on their own and ensuring that the EU is maintained as a single market, he said. I had to pursue very doggedly what was in British national interest. It is not easy when you are in a room where people are pressing you to sign up to things because they say it is in all our interests.
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Euro, It's The Sovereignty, Stupid.
Exam Board Admists There Is Little Content In Their ExamsA GCSE examination paper set by Edexcel, one of Britains biggest exam boards, has so little content that the organisation's chief examiner cannot believe it was approved by the Governments official regulators, according to reports in the press and on television news.Steph Warren, a senior official at Edexcel, revealed to an undercover reporter posing as a teacher who was considering using the firms tests that you dont have to teach a lot and that there is a lot less for pupils to learn than with rival courses. Miss Warren, who oversees the setting of geography exams for tens of thousands of teenagers, said she did not know how the paper got past the official regulation system that is supposed to ensure high standards in GCSEs and A-Levels. The disclosures, the latest from ongoing investigations into exam standards in the wake of dumbing down allegations, will reinforce suspicions that exam boards are driving down standards by aggressively competing with one another to persuade schools to take their tests and thus increase their revenue from government. Another Edexcel official has also boasted to an undercover reporter about the ease of the exam boards coursework. So weak kids, you can get them through on anything really. Jennifer Smith, Edexcels A-Level English moderator said. The revelation prompted widespread outragedEducation Secretary Michael Gove who ordered Ofqual, the exam regulator, to begin a formal investigation into exam boards. Yesterday a spokesman for the Prime Minister said the exam system was discredited. We are very clear that our exam system needs fundamental reform, the spokesman said. The revelations we have seen today show our current system is discredited. We are very clear we will take whatever action is necessary to restore faith in the exam system. Asked if last years exam results had been devalued, David Camerons official spokesman added: I dont think thats the right conclusion to draw but theres clearly a problem and we need to address that. Amid growing concern over the standard of next years tests, Ofqual is poised to make recommendations for urgent reform to Mr Gove before Christmas.
8 December 2011The Day Of The Eurodeadby John de RoeWhile we wait for Mario Merkozy and the other Euro rats to eat each other here are a few snippets from the EMU break-up prophecies published in the past few days. The Dutch bank ING has revised its numbers, calculating that the Greek Drachma would fall by 80pc against the D-Mark in a dismembering of the European Single Currency involving Euro member states reverting to their own currencies.The Escudo and the Peseta would both fall by 50pc, and the Lira and the Irish Punt by 25pc. Germany, INGS says, would suffer a "deflationary shock". The whole eurozone would plunge into a recession that would make the one following the banking meltdown in 2008 look like a walk in the park. A GDP contraction of around 9pc across member sttes in 2012 would send shockwaves round the world. Germany would see it's economy shrink by 7 per cent, France 9 per cent, Portugal 12 percent and Greece by 13 percent. Outside the Eurozone, the UK would see a 5 per cent contraction), Poland 6.5 per cent, USA (who have their own problems) 2 percent and Japan 1.5 percent). It is not all bad news however. The price of oil would drop to $55 a barrel. The US would experience deflation but fuerl prices would fall. The contraction would continue into 2013, before gradually stabilizing probably resulting in a period of stagnation. "Events of the past year have proved beyond doubt that the Eurozone is far from a textbook `optimal currency area' (well some of us said it was unworkable and insane, motivated more by a wish to establish a European superstate as a stepping stone to global governance than an attempt to bring economic stability to the poorer nations of Europe. It is now, however, an omelette that cannot readily be unscrambled and restored to three separate eggs. The ING report is less dire than a UBS press release predicting a 50pc collapse in peripheral GDP, and 20pc to 25pc in the core, but it still begs the question: "If the intra-EMU currency misalignment was so out of kilter that free floats would cut Greece by 80pc, and Spain by 50pc, it surely validates the eurosceptic argument that monetary union has become a preposterous and unworkable arrangement, an obsession of power crazy world domination freaks rather than a solution to economic problems. The sceptics are right of course, well I'm one of them and on economcs I'm never wrong. It will take hideous contortions to hold the system together for year after year if ING is close to right on these numbers, with perma-slump, endless austerity, and ever greater macro-economic absurdities, so why persist? Breaking up the Euro single currency system will be painful but not as bad as perpetual pain. Let's get the cancer cut out, get the pain over with and get back to somethink like normality. Some economists are of the opinion that the D-Mark will soar against the dollar after a break-up, mimicking the Swiss franc. They are wrong. The New DMark would be sucked down by the depression and mayhem following a breakup.It is naive to think the euro could rally if Greece was offered an exit route that guaranteed a soft landing. The problems are systemic, there are only three nations out of the 17 that use the Euro not running a contant deficit. Welfare systems, deindustrialisation and ageing populations have taken their toll. The core currency, even without Greece would plunge below dollar parity, and perhaps below $0.85. The base case of governments and central banks remains that EMU will survive, courtesy of a grand bargain that exchanges tighter fiscal discipline and economic reform for German support for ECB action to aid the funding of peripheral governments and banks. Then the question would be how long could the German coalition survive in the face of anger among German voters. The most likely is most Euro nations, the exceptions being Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Finland and Luxembourg, will end up with zombie economies, stick in stagflation and permanent austerity, staggering from crisis to crisis. WEhatever happens however it is going to be a double bill horror show.
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Only Ten Days To Save The Euro
7 December 2011UK manufacturing adds to economic gloomBritain's manufacturing sector returned worse-than-expected performance figures in October, shrinking 0.7pc and heightening fears that the UK economy will contract in the fourth quarter.Economists had forecast a smaller decline of 0.3pc, but the eurozone debt crisis has had greater impact on business than anticipated. The Office for National Statistics data were "hugely disappointing" according to Howard Archer, chief UK economist at IHS Global Insight. "Hopes raised earlier in the year that the manufacturing sector could see extended healthy growth and help the economy to see more balanced activity now seem a distant memory," he said. Broader industrial production - which includes mining and utilities as well as manufacturing - also contracted by 0.7pc against expectations of a 0.3pc fall. The weak data suggested stagnation in manufacturting could act as a drag on growth in the final quarter of the year, as producers are hit with falling demand for their goods both at home and abroad.
UK jobs market in rapid declineby Xavier ConollyBritain's jobs market is in rapid decline as flagging business confidences forces employers to delay hiring decisions, a new report reveals. Unemployment could rise to 3m, according to KPMG business consulting group and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation. A joint report warned of further job losses as the number of people placed in permanent jobs fell at the sharpest rate since July 2009. On a scale where anything above 50 represents an increase in hiring, the reports jobs index reached 48.2 in November, down from 49.7 in October and way below its pre-credit crunch peak of 64.1. The report warned the growth in permanent job vacancies eased back as employers became increasingly concerned over the eurozone crisis and global growth prospects. The rate of growth for temporary jobs also scaled back from October, meaning pay pressures were subdued across permanent and agency staff. Bernard Brown, partner at KPMG, said uncertainties in the European market could send unemployment soaring to beyond 3m, up from its current 17-year high of 2.6m. Whilst most commentators suggest unemployment will peak lower than three million, this figure may be tested in the year ahead, he said. Economic uncertainty is resulting in a number of employers placing jobs on hold and taking longer to make recruitment decisions. Last weeks Autumn Statement contained a number of welcome measures aimed at helping businesses to grow and to ease red tape around employment but they are unlikely to make much difference in the short term. The report showed a slight boost in the number of candidates available for jobs but at the weakest rate of growth since May, suggesting fewer people were willing to quit their jobs in turbulent times. The jobs market has been slowing since May but this slowdown has accelerated in the past three months. The decline is being driven by falling business and consumer confidence. Analysts expect unemployment to rise in December and January. Employers are finding it difficult to recruit people with the right skill sets, with engineering, construction, IT and computing skills being among those regarded in short supply.
Another Tory Minister Breaks Ranks To Tell Cameron There Must Be A Referendum On Europeby Ed ButtFollowing our recent reports on hints from Minister Iain Duncan Smith and influential backbencher Douglas Carswell of a Tory rebellion against the Prime Minister's europhile stance, another senior minister, Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Patterson, Owen Paterson, the Northern Ireland Secretary, has said a referendum on Britain's relationship with the European Union is "inevitable". Mr Patersons comments, in an interview with The Spectator, are the most serious Conservative challenge yet to David Camerons European policy. Mr Cameron this week insisted that the proposed fiscal union among eurozone members does not involve a transfer of British power to Brussels, therefore there is no need for a referendum. Mr Paterson countered his leader by saying that the creation of a more integrated eurozone will create a brand new relationship between Britain and the EU. That change, he suggested, must eventually trigger a referendum in Britain on the new arrangements to be discussed at a Brussels summit tomorrow. If we confine the argument to simple economics, while it is hrd to see what concrete benefits Britain gets for the Ł40 million a day EU membership costs us, there is a case for remaining in the community. With the Eurozone nations racing towards a German led bureaucratic dictatorship with the central government of the single European nation being apointed by Brussels and Brussels being told what to do by Germany there is no case at all for being part of the neo Nazi Fourth Reich Europes leaders long for. If the fiscal union of the 17 Euro members goes ahead, thgose nations will have to vote as a bloc on any European laws and regulations. Thus the remaining nine members who are not members of the single currency system can never hope to influence policies to which their EU membership will bind them. We would, in effect, be ruled from Germany.
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6 December 2011Bank of England Steps In To Prevent Euro Break Up Causing A New Credit Crunch In BritainThe Bank of England has stepped in provide the banking system with more money to overcome the risks to financial stability from a market-wide shortage of short-term sterling liquidity.
This should prove to our lily livered leaders we are better off managing our own fiscal policy. The Eurowankers couldn't organise and orgy in a brothel.
Have Cameron's Attempts To Drag Us Into A European Fiscal Union Doomed Himby Ed ButtLongtime Eurosceptic cConservative MEP Daniel Hannon has attacked David Cameron many times, highlighting Cameron's slavish devotion to the idea of a single European superstate ruled from Brussels by a government of appointed Bureaucrats. Last week Dan was joined by former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith who slated the Prime Minister's slimy attempt to wriggle out of his promise that we would have a referendum before he made us part of an authoritarian bureaucratic dictatorship. Now influential backbencher Douglas Carswell has joined the attack on he scumsucking spawn of a pox whore's scab lce who want to give away our national sovereignty in exchange for a seat on the gravy train for themselves. The outspoken eurosceptic said ministers and civil servants could not be trusted to negotiate with other member states in the national interest. Mr. Carswell also said plans by Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, and the French President Nicolas Sarkozy to change existing treaties to cope with the eurozone debt crisis should be a trigger for British renegotiation. His comments echo Iain Duncan-Smith's call for a referebdum on any treaty But Mr Cameron, who is attending a meeting of the European Council in Brussels later this week, insists that nothing has changed to justify such a move. Oh no? Well why are the Krauts and Frogs talking about a two tier Europe with the seventeen members of the single currency system voting the waqy Germany tells them to outvote Britain and other nations that have retained their own currency on laws imposed by Brussels that will affect British people? Mr Carswell said the current new treaty discussions offered an opportunity for those supporting a renegotiation of the UKs membership of the EU. This is an unprecedented opportunity for us to get the deal that we want, he said, during a discussion on BBC Radio 4's Today programme. The issue is can we trust ministers and senior civil servants to negotiate the deal on our behalf I believe not." Neither do I, in fact I could throw any of those smooth faced arse bandits a lot further than I would trust them. The only way that we can get the deal that is in the national interest is if ministers and mandarins know that the result has to be put to the people in a referendum. Not only is Mr. Carswell right, his comments highlight tensions within the Coalition over Europe that is stretching the government to breaking point. While the crypto-fascist, pseudo liberasl Democrats are all for global governments, multiculturalism and all the other Politically Correct bullshit the Conservatives are close to all out rebellion against Cameron and Clegg's pro Europe, one-nation-at-any-price stance and are pushing to repatriate powers. Simon Hughes, the Lib Dem deputy leader, told the programme that the coalition agreement blocked any referendum on the issue unless it involved a fresh transfer of powers to Brussels an option not currently on the table. We have enough problems in the European Union dealing with the euro without the UK being part of a referendum option as well, he said. Time for Nigel Farage to step up to the mark and tell Cammers and Clegg, Simon Hughes and all the other spineless, limp wristed stoat felchers to fuck the fucking fuck off because there's a home in UKIP for MPs who value Britain's nationhood. Not long ago The Daily Stirrer said the final war would not be between nations or cultures but would set the elite and their arse lickers against the people.
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On the lighter side we have two stories from the world of statgazing today:Scientists Find A Planet That Might, Just Possibly, Support Life. by Ian R Thorpe
In another step toward finding Confirmation means that astronomers have seen it crossing in front of its star three times. But it doesn't mean that astronomers know whether life actually exists there, simply that the conditions are right. What they have seen might be the Midgard Serpent chasing it's own tail for all they know. Potential life bearing planets have to be the right distance from their star to support water, plus have a suitable temperature range and atmospheric composition to support life. And if they are to support inteligent life there are other things that must be in place; Television, pubs, a beer making industry, a welfare state system and football stadiums. "We have now got good planet confirmation with Kepler-22b," said Bill Borucki, Kepler principal investigator at NASA Ames Research Center told media representatives. "We are certain that it is in the habitable zone and if it has a surface, it ought to have a nice temperature". Spinning around its star some 600 light years away, Kepler-22b is 2.4 times the size of the Earth, putting it in class known as "super-Earths," and orbits its Sun-like star every 290 days. Its near-surface temperature is presumed to be about 72 degrees Fahrenheit (22 Celsius). Scientists do not know, however, whether the planet is rocky, gaseous or liquid. Ah well gaseous could be a bit of a problem unless the life forms are like Amoeba Constabulae. In which case our first explorers would be able to say, "It's life Jim, but not as we know it.) It should be mentioned that a light year is the distance travelled by light at 186,000 miles a second, in one Earth year. So obviously the scientists know there are lifeforms there because with super dooper radio telescopes they can see the little green buggers waving to us. But at that distance we will never see them with the naked eye. Let's hop Santa Claus brings us all some good binoculars. The planet's first "transit," or star crossover, was observed shortly after NASA launched its Kepler spacecraft in March 2009. Kepler is NASA's first mission in search of Earth-like planets orbiting suns similar to ours, and has so far cost the US space agency about $600 million.
But these are exciting times for Kepler is searching for planets as small as Earth, including those orbiting stars in a warm, habitable zone where liquid water could exist on the surface of the planet. In addition to French astronomers' confirmed finding of Gliese 581d in May, Swiss astronomers reported in August that another planet, HD 85512 b, about 36 light years away seemed to be in the habitable zone of its star. However, those two planets are "orbiting stars smaller and cooler than our Sun," NASA said in a statement, noting that Kepler-22b "is the smallest yet found to orbit in the middle of the habitable zone of a star similar to our Sun." In other words these guys have no idea if any of the possible life supporting planets could actually support life. And as show above it wll be quite some time before we can get there so all they will have to go on is guesswork, supposition and wishful thinking. Once again we at Boggart Blog feel the scientists are so lost up their own equations they are missing the point. The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe, is that none of it has tried to visit us yet.
Footnote: And these people want to spend shitloads of money styudying this planet? Cunts.
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Two New Black Holes Are The Biggest Everby Xavier ConnollyScientists have discovered the two biggest black holes yet observed, each with an estimated mass billions of times greater than the Sun's, according to a study published on Monday, December 5. The two giants are located in the heart of a pair of galaxies several hundred million light years from Earth, said the study in scientific journal Nature. OK well, as the scientists are measuring light arriving at observatories from the region of the two galaxies, that means the light set off from there a few hundred million earth years ago. So the supposed Black Holes might not even be there now. So what significance does this have to us as we wrestle with economic problems, overpopulation, joblessness etc? Wait though, the scientists have not finished being irrelevant yet. Each black hole is estimated to have a mass about 10 billion times greater than our sun, dwarfing the previously largest known black hole, which has a mass of 6.3 billion suns. And how to they know this? Has anyone ever been to a black hole and taken measurements? Unlikely as in theory nothing can get out of a black hole once it is sucked in. These conclusions have been arrived at on the basis of "evidence" gathered by some cretin siting in a study performing equations on data he had made up. You think I am just being sarky? No, the cretin's name was Albert Einstein and unfortunately most modern science is based on his "scientific method" of deciding what answer you want and then tailoring the data to fit. The latest extravaganza in Einstein worship comes from a University of California, Berkeley, team led by Nicholas McConnell and Chung-Pei Ma. The unlikely sounding duo said one black hole is located in NGC 3842, the brightest of a cluster of galaxies about 320 million light years from Earth. The second hole, of "comparable or greater mass" and is located in NGC 4889, the brightest galaxy in the Coma cluster, about 335 million light years away. "These two black holes are significantly more massive than predicted," the astronomers wrote.Their calculations suggest that different evolutionary processes influence the growth of the largest galaxies and their black holes than in smaller galaxies. Calculations eh? Never any real evidence with these characters is there. Well as I said, we aren't likely to be able to travel several hundred light years into space in the near future. Why can't these vain, self aggrandizing research grant phishers see it does not matter at all what is going on in deep space, even if it affects us in any way there is sod all we can do about it. Astronomers have long supposed that since the universe began it has harboured black holes with a mass the size of the two newly found giants. These cosmic gluttons grow in tandem with their galaxies, slurping up gases, planets and stars. "There is a symbiotic relationship between black holes and their galaxies that has existed since the dawn of time," Kevin Schawinski, a Yale astronomer said in a June study. What these stupid coneheads are overlooking while creaming their underpants in sheer excitement over this "discovery" is even if we could travel at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second) it would take hundreds of millions of years years to get to these galaxies. At the speed our fastest currently operational spacecraft can reach ( about 10) miles a second) it would take over a billion years to get there. And people are spending taxpayers money on studying this stuff. Cunts.
5 December 2011Israel and USA war covert war on Iran.Former US intelligence officials and Iran experts believe the USA and Israel are already 'involved in covert war against Iran with the aim of bringing about regime change in that country. It is rumoured last month's explosion at a military base near Tehran was part of a covert effort by the US, Israel and other states to overthrow the Islamist regime disable Iran's nuclear and missile programmes, The Los Angeles Times reported late on Sunday.The huge explosion ripped through the Revolutionary Guard Corps base on November 12, levelling most of the buildings and killing 17 people, including a founder of Iran's ballistic missile program, General Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam. The newspaper said the goal of the covert campaign is to derail Iran's quest for a nuclear weapons capability. "It looks like the 21st century form of war," said Patrick Clawson, director of the Iran Security Initiative at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, adding. "It does appear there is a campaign of assassinations and cyber war, as well as the semi-acknowledged campaign of sabotage." Any such operation would be highly classified, and those who might know of it are not likely to be giving press conferernces. For years, the United States and its allies have sought to hinder Iran's weapons programmes by secretly supplying faulty parts, plans or software, according to information leaked from western security sevices. So far there is no proof of a camaign of sabotage, but Iran's nuclear programme clearly has hit obstacles that thwarted progress in recent years. Art Keller, a former CIA case officer who worked on Iran,was quoted in the LA Times as saying. "It's pretty much the stated mission of the (CIA's) counter-proliferation division to do what it takes to slow Iran's weapons of mass destruction programme." Many Western experts are convinced that American and Israeli engineers secretly fed the Stuxnet computer worm into Iran's nuclear program in 2010, The LA Times pointed out. The virus reportedly caused centrifuges used to enrich uranium to spin out of control and shatter, the paper said. We should remember however the computers used to manage the nuclear project are not internet enabled, are not Microsoft Windows, Apple or Linux devices and were supposedly infected in a sting operation on two Iranian scientists that would have made a story too far fetched to be the plot of a James Bond film. It is far more likely that /Barack Obama, the puppet President (and allegedly closet Muslim) whose strings are pulled by the Saudi Royal House according to many Bammy - watchers, has been told by his paymasters, devout Sunni Muslims) that the Shi'ite regime in Iran must go. It is not many weeks since The Daily Stirrer reported that Obama had ordered American combat troops into Uganda to supposedly quell the terrorist activities of a rag bag bunch of bandits, The Lord's Resistance Army, led by a renegade Christian preacher. The great peacemaker, the great conciliator, the vacuous windbag who promised a post racial, post sectarian world in which we would all join hands and sing Kumbiya before The President Of The Entire Universe And Everything Else Besides, with one wave of his magic penis made all the problems disappear instantly. Somehow we get the idea that China, Russian and India are not going to buy into the idea of Obama's omnipotence. Right now he may be a cretin and an imbecile as many of us warned but he is America's cretin and imbecile, soon he could be the world's problem.
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Outbreak of Democracy In St Petersburg, Russia, Outrages The Left
by Ed Butt Groups on the left of the political spectrum love to rant about equality buy on leftie farm as on Orwell's Animal Farm the left like to pick and choose which causes are more equal than other. Thus a new local law putting a restraint on gay propaganda in St. Petersburg, Russia has lefties, gays and lesbians wailing and gnashing teeth against this outbreak of democracy.
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2 December 2011Can The Euro Be SavedThe mainstream media have caught on at last. Here is what Daily Telegraph economics writer Damien Reece said today (three days after The Daily Stirrer said the same thing you might notice):The clock is ticking for the euro. After 11 years circulating in shops and bars from Athens to Zeebrugge, there are, it is said, just 10 days left to save it or perhaps eight, since it was on Wednesday that Olli Rehn, Europes Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner, made his startling prediction of the euros imminent demise. The fact that Rehn, an official at the heart of the euro project, came out with such a stark assessment has brought what many thought was unthinkable into the realm of the thinkable. So thinkable, in fact, that governments (including our own), central banks, lawyers, financial institutions and investors are making contingency plans for what is assumed will be an economic event of cataclysmic proportions ... Read full article 1 December 2011Why The USA Fears The Euro Zone CrisisAs the Federal Reserve joins global central banks in a collective action against the looming euro meltdown, Slate's Matt Yglesias explains why it's so crucial that the U.S. participate: non-American banks hold nearly 50 percent of the U.S. dollars in the world, and a European crash might suddenly make them unavailable to American borrowers. "You never want the people in charge to actually set off a panic by speaking too soon about hypothetical calamities, but wed all better hope that somewhere in the basement of the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve theyre prepping a Plan B to keep money flowing even if European finance dries up."Eurodoom, the theory that is speading fear and panic through the world's financial markets predicts the European economic crisis could devastate the U.S. This would also be devastating for the emerging economies of the third world as they rely on western consumerism to provide a market for their goods. The severity of the economic crisis in the Eurozone is perhaps best understood if we use it to put into perspective a striking statement made this week by a senior Polish politician Radek Sikorski. "I will probably be the first Polish foreign minister in history to say this," he said, "but here it is: I fear German power less than I am beginning to fear its inactivity." Poland is not a member of the European Single Currency system, but the unease among Polish leaders is understandable. Poland's exports to its EU partners that are Eurozone members constitute more than 10 percent of Polish GDP, so a massive economic contraction would have a catastrophic knock on effect in Poland. But what has the United States of America to fear except fear itself? US exports to the Eurozone are only around 1.3 percent of GDP. That is a fleabite, not enough to fund Barack Obama's spending on neighbourhood parties at The White House for a month. Looked at in dollars it might seem an enormous amount to someone earning only slightly above the statutory minimum wage but in terms of the national economy it's peanuts. This might suggest that the US economy has less to fear from the collapse of the Euro than from the expiry of the Bush income tax cuts and the Obama payroll tax cuts. To understand America's problem we need to look at what is happening in Europe from a different angle.The reason the United States could face catastrophe if the Euro single currency system goes tits up. A fact well-known to financial practitioners but unknown to the public, and occasionally mentioned by Nobel Prize phishing economics professors is that a very large share of the worlds dollars, close to 50%, are held in non-American accounts. Indeed, for several years in the the first decade of this century the total dollar assets of non-American banks actually exceeded the total assets of the U.S. commercial banking system and even today, after Obama's three year money printing exercise, the ratio is close to 1:1. A daunting possibility suggested in a Nov. 7 lecture Global Banking Glut and Loan Risk Premium (PDF) by Princeton professor Hyun Song Shi. These dollars, mostly held by European-headquartered global conglomerates are not isolated from the American economy. Just as U.S. firms and households deposit money in American banks and take loans from the banks, Europe's global banks act as intermediaries between borrowers and investors. It's how the whole global economy has worked for 200 years. A 2010 Bank of International Settlements survey (PDF) revealed that as of 2009, 161 foreign banks were operating 226 branches in the United States that raised more than $1 trillion in wholesale funding, largely through money markets. Dollars raised in the United States tend to ultimately work their way back to the United States through the labyrinthine networks of the banking system. European banks arent the only ones in this game, but they are the largest player. The upshot is that decisions made in Europe about how much leverage to take on play as important a part in determining American lending as do decisions made in the United States. The Professor goes on to argue that European decision-making played a large role in inflating the now departed credit bubble that burst in 2008. That may outrage some American patriots but if it helps them learn that the global banks cannot truly be described as American, Bitish, German, Chinese etc. as they have no identifiable owners but instead through cross investment all own each other it may help both conservatives and liberals who are even more out of touch understand how the world really works right now. The liberals of course will simply refuse to believe it, close their minds to the truth and start yelling "conspiracy theory". But at least they will have no reason to be surprised on waking up one morning to find they are no longer free individuals. The realistic implication, however, is that a massive and sudden contraction of the European economy would make those foreign held dollars unavailable to American borrowers. This would immediately cause a tightening of credit conditions in the United States. If European finance houses are sudenly forced to hold onto cash the dollars held by European banks would suddenly be placed beyond the reach of American commercial lenders and by extension business and domestic borrowers. Orthodox economic thinking as expressed by government officials and economic analysts reported in mainstream media does not yet appear able to join the dots that link Europes difficulties to moves in the American credit markets.. Yesterday the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released updated economic forecasts reflecting new pessimism by saying Euro area growth is forecast to slow down from 1.6 percent this year to 0.2 percent next year, having a small impact on an American economy that will still grow by 2 percent. Since 2008 however policymakers have suffered from a bias toward optimism. Europeans were initially far too smug about the idea that they were insulated from problems relating to a housing bubble on the other side of an ocean. Then, in 2010, American policymakers were far too impressed by good news from the labor market and leapt to unwarranted conclusions about a recovery summer. Now the risk is that American leaders will overestimate their nation's degree of insulation from problems in the European banking system.
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Britain 'will join euro before long, says German finance minister
Oxford don's Voltaire reference at heart of race discrimination caseIt could only have happened in the cloistered world of Oxford University. A history tutors passing reference to a character in Voltaire, while he was considering candidates for the job of head chef at his college, has four years later become the focus of a race discrimination case. The reference, which can only be inmterpreted as a reference to somebody's unrealistic optimism has been twisted in the warped minds of the "progressive" left who say it refers to a stereotype for Afro Carribean males as being lazy and stupid.Another case of how politically correct idiocy is making it impossible to say anything to a black person.
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